ker-loey

    "H-hey! Wait up!" I scrambled after my annoyingly hyperactive friend, puffing with exertion. He stopped and grinned as I collapsed onto a convenient patch of soft heather, panting. I glared at Alfred, but was rewarded with one of his trademark sunny laughs, his wheat coloured hair slightly mussed from the climb. "Why didn't you wait?" I pouted, stretching out onto the sun-warmed ground and cushioning my head with my arms. He grinned and plopped down next to me, his cornflower eyes sparkling. "I wanted you to see the view, of course! Don't you think it's worth it?" he crowed, extending his arms into the boundless sky. Even though I knew