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“If we were on the moon. It would be just you and me. No one would be able to hurt me there,” he said.
He spent a very long time gazing outside.
One night Charlie jokingly said, “Sometimes I wish you could fly me to the moon.”
“You’re interested in the moon, huh?”
He seemed to have gotten used to his life with her. He seemed to have come to see the home as home. He had a routine that he had settled into. Luna still brought him extravagant foods. There were some foods that she had brought him that were great delicacies but which didn't sit well with his stomach.
Charlie spent a lot of his time with Luna. Luna encouraged him to be indepednent. But whenever she was home, he usually stuck around her. He tried to be helpful. He would spend time cleaning the home and her treasures which she appreciated.
"You're so brave," Luna told him.
He smiled.
Charlie didn't seem used to having so much freedom. It made sense. First, he had been confined in the Academy. He seemed wowed by open spaces. Sometimes he would just stand at the home entrance gazing outside.
He was starting to seem more curious. Luna took this as a good sign. At first, he was cowed. He was afraid to approach anything unless he had been given an order to do so. He would never have touched her things without permission or even moved within the home within her permission.
Now he was a little bolder in investigating his curiosities. He still wouldn't touch things, though this was partially because Luna had warned him that some of the objects were dangerous and he should check with her before touching something. For his own safety. But now, even without a direct order, he felt free to move from one place to another if he was still within her sight. Though he didn't touch things he would spend time gazing at things that caught his interest. And at the world outside.
Luna was glad that Charlie seemed to be enjoying his time with her. Or so she thought. A lot of things were confusing. Like why she continued to keep him around. She was interested in information about the Osternian Empire from him, but after a while she had heard most of the information that he knew.
A lot of things were confusing.
Luna didn't know where she stood in her realtionship with him and neither did Charlie. At least Charlie had an idea of where he wanted to stand in his realtionship wtih Luna, while Luna did not.
Luna had been a loner for a while and wasn't used to really desiring a realtionship with someone. Her relationship was largely with her treasure. Also sometimes she set goals just to amuse herself.
When you were long lived like Luna, sometimes you would challenge yourself to do something just because you had nothing else to do and you might as well, and it was nice to prove to yourself that you could do it.
For example, one time Luna had an especially irritating neighbor. Usually her response in those cases was to move away. But this time, she decided to do something different. Because she was bored and because she hated the people of this country so much.