Kindness

It is easy to forget how kind she was.

Rosettes way of course was to be loud and wild and almost carelessly violent. It was easy to dismiss her appetite and her love of sleep as traits of a selfish person.

But then, that was to see the mask and mistake it for the girl.

Rosette knelt before the crying frightened boy. They had been coming back to the order from shopping and found this lost child in their path.

"Hey There" Said Rosette "Now what could make a big brave boy like you cry?"

The "big brave boy" was no more than four years old.

"I lost my Momma!" He wailed.

"We'll just have to find her then" Said Rosette "I'm sister Rosette and my specialty is finding lost Momma's."

"Really?" The child sniffed.

"Would a nun lie"?

Chrono blinked. The Sisters were not nuns, but holy warriors.

"Uh…Rosette….."

"Shut up, Chrono" Rosette sing-songed.

He stayed silent but a smile played on his lips as she took the child's hand, and began to walk scanning the crowd.

She smiled at the boy, and began to sing nursery rhymes to him, and in a moment he joined her in Old MacDonald, forgetting his fear.

And only a few moments later a woman's voice cried "TOMMY! TOMMY!"

"MOMMA!" The boy broke away and rushed to the young woman who scooped him up.

"I was so afraid." She said tearfully.

"Rosie found me" Said the boy.

Chrono clamped his hand on his mouth to keep from laughing.

"Sister Rosette" Said the girl, holding out a hand.

"Thank you so much Sister" The woman said.

"Its Jake. Now you stick with your momma, Tommy. Your family's the most important thing in the world."

"Ok Rosie"

Chrono grinned.


As they walked home, he glanced at her with a small smile. She looked back and returned it "What?"

"Nothing. Its just….that was really kind."

She blushed. "Ah Fiddlesticks"

"No it really was….." Said Chrono "……Rosie."

She chased him all the way home