She stretched her hand out and grabbed his. With firmness, she pulled him up, "Come on, follow me. I cannot reverse time, but I can freeze the air for a while."
"I am not sure that is a wise thing to do," he mumbled, allowing himself to be dragged off anyway. He didn't care where she wanted to take him, just as long as he could forget for a moment.
Like everyone in the family, he had long been expecting this day. In fact, his grandfather had lived longer than they expected him to. None the less, hearing doctors declare his condition hopeless still hurt.
He would have pushed Sunshine to find some kind of cure for old age in those other worlds, but she had bigger problems like the rifts and learning how to storm bind. A natural death was not another battle to add to her to-do list. Besides, his grandfather was not willing to live on.
The old man wanted to go, as nature had intended. In his own words, this new world was not for him.
