"Mr. Heath, you don't seem to be in a very good mood today?" Miss Lennai asked curiously as she looked at Heath in front of her. Heath smiled, then shook his head.
"It's nothing. I just feel that partings in this world really are sad." Heath smiled, then served Miss Lennai the Chicken Soup Rice and a bowl of Beef Tendon Balls he was holding. Miss Lennai had come very early today, arriving not long after Sister Feng and the others had left. She had ordered her usual Chicken Soup Rice, but at Heath's recommendation, she had also bought a serving of Beef Tendon Balls.
Miss Lennai nodded. Such things really were sad, and everyone went through them. Parting with friends was still all right, though. If it was a separation in life or death, they might truly never see each other again for the rest of their lives.
"Mr. Heath, you know I'm an archaeologist, right?" Miss Lennai took a bite of a Beef Tendon Ball. It tasted quite good, but looking at the sweet chili dipping sauce Heath had made, she forked another beef ball into her mouth and chewed. That tasted good too.
"Yes." Heath nodded. He had learned from Cynthia that Miss Lennai was an archaeologist, reportedly quite a famous one at that. Still, Heath didn't quite understand why Miss Lennai was bringing this up now.
"Actually, sometimes when I'm doing archaeological work, I wonder: people's lives in the past were recorded in these ways, so how will our lives be recorded? Will people in the future excavate things from our era? When I was excavating an ancient ruin before, I once saw a mural depicting an unusually shaped Pokémon parting with its child." Miss Lennai's gaze grew a little distant, as though she had become