379 - Just five minutes

Jai and Darrion sat around the coffee table near the garden as they continued their talk. They had put away their clothes in the drawer by now, and they kept their bags inside the small closet where the futons are kept.

“What did Erietta say?” Jai moved to open the door beside them so they could get a refreshing view of the pond while they were talking.

This gave Claude an opportunity to listen in on their conversation from behind the hotel’s outer wall. He was leaning leisurely outside, in the street, munching on a freshly baked sweet potato he bought a few minutes before from an old man who had just passed by him with a crate full of baked sweet potatoes.

Following them for these past days had made him realize the guys’ real reason of taking the journey. He had heard it from their conversation these few days, and he had to admit that they were doing a noble thing for a distraught old man.

Yes, even Claude caught the name of the d