Chapter 644: This encounter
Riva had heard legends about stars more than once, and some versions did claim that the stars were alive. But he swore that even if stars were alive, he had never imagined one could be alive like this!
At last, a satisfied expression appeared on the little girl's face, as though she were saying, Yes, that's more like it!
After the shock had all but exhausted him, Riva could only stare wide-eyed at the little girl, then laboriously turn his head to look at the enormous crater.
"You... you weren't hurt when you fell?"
As a child, Riva had once fallen off a balcony with a neighbor's child. He had limped for several days, his leg aching the whole time, but his playmate had been less fortunate and broken a leg outright. Almost half a year later, it still hadn't fully healed.
If the neighboring couple hadn't been fairly hardworking-if the boy had come from a poorer family instead-he might have healed even more slowly without enough food to eat.
No matter how he looked at it, the distance between heaven and earth had to be countless times greater than the height of a balcony.
The little girl ignored his boring question and circled him instead. Then she crouched down and pulled aside Riva's bloodstained clothes to examine the wound on his chest.
"Hss..."
The pain made Riva instinctively shield his chest.
The wound had already scabbed over. It looked like a thick, hideous centipede clinging to the lower part of his chest.
"Looks like it shouldn't split open again if you're careful. The blood loss is a problem, though!"
The little girl rubbed her chin, then scrutinized Riva's pale face.
At such close range, Riva could clearly see every detail of the girl's face. Her