A couple months after that, Fu-Fu visited the palace visibly upset.

"What's wrong Fu-Fu?" Sheegwa asked.

"My colony is moving to another cave very far away." Fu-Fu explained.

"What?" Sagwa gasped, shocked.

"Yes, I'm afraid I won't be able to visit for a long time while we make the journey." Fu-Fu hung his head, saddened. "And even after the journey I won't be able to visit as often as I used to."

"That's not fair." Dongwa frowned.

"You're telling me." Fu-Fu nodded. "I'm sorry but I have to leave."

Fu-Fu reluctantly flew away. Dongwa, Sheegwa, and Sagwa were very upset. Sagwa most of all.

They went back into the palace with their heads down. Soon they reached the upper room where they worked and where The Foolish Magistrate and Tai-Tai slept. Mama Miao and Baba Miao were writing out The Foolish Magistrate's latest rules when they saw their children arrive.

"What's wrong?" Mama Miao saw, noticing how upset they were.

"Fu-Fu's colony is moving far away. Fu-Fu won't be able to visit us that often anymore." Dongwa explained.

"That is very sad news, but I'm sure there's a good reason." Baba Miao said. "Perhaps the cave Fu-Fu's colony used to live in was flooded."

"I'm not sure, not even Fu-Fu seemed to know why his colony was moving." Sheegwa shrugged. "If he did he didn't tell us."

"Well don't worry, a true friend will always make an effort to visit you no matter how far away they live." Mama Miao smiled. "And from what I've seen Fu-Fu is a true friend. How about you three help us out with these rules? The Foolish Magistrate had to pay a visit to the next village's magistrate so he wrote them down for us to copy."

"Okay, it'll take our mind off things." Sheegwa shrugged.

"Eh, I'll stick with Tai-Chi, that always calms me down." Dongwa started to leave. "I'll be outside if you need me."

"Okay." Sheegwa smiled. "Come on Sagwa."

"Okay." Sagwa sighed.

She and Sheegwa helped their parents with the rules, but for once Sheegwa was doing better than Sagwa. Sagwa was barely paying attention to her work at all. She did copy the rules down correctly, but not in the beautiful style she would always write in. This time her calligraphy was plain and emotionless. Baba Miao and Mama Miao let it go, they knew that Sagwa was still upset about Fu-Fu. Besides, the rules were legible and that was the main thing.

Reader was confused by Sagwa's plain calligraphy, but he had a job to do so he decided to look into it after he got back. Even though The Foolish Magistrate had become a lot friendlier since the 'ink-pot incident' he was still very strict about having rules read to the village as soon as possible.

When The Foolish Magistrate, Tai-Tai, and their daughters came home it was the same time as Reader did.

"Oh, good timing I think there's something wrong with Sagwa." Reader said as he caught up with The Foolish Magistrate and his family.

"What makes you say that?" Tai-Tai asked.

"Her calligraphy was plain today, as if she wasn't into scribing."

"That's weird, Sagwa has always been more into calligraphy than even her parents." The Foolish Magistrate was concerned.

Ba-Do didn't say anything, she had already left for the writing room.

"Sagwa?" Ba-Do said.

She saw Sagwa lying on the desk very unhappy.

"What's wrong Sagwa?" She asked.

Sagwa sadly wrote something on a scroll.

"Oh no..." Ba-Do read the scroll. "Oh Sagwa I'm so sorry."

Reader and her family caught up. Cook was there too, having met up with them outside.

"Sagwa's bat friend Fu-Fu won't be visiting us that much anymore." Ba-Do explained, holding up the scroll. "His colony moved far away."

Reader and Cook didn't know Fu-Fu that well, due to their duties, but they still understood since they were friends and hated it when they didn't have time to hang out. Ba-Do's family knew Fu-Fu better and were sorry to hear this. They had grown fond of him and would miss him, though obviously not as much as Sagwa.

"How about you take a few days off to recover Sagwa?" The Foolish Magistrate suggested.

Sagwa just nodded weakly.

As the days passed Sagwa never got better. If anything she was getting worse. She stopped drawing for fun like she used too, and would spend most of her time either in her bed asleep or outside watching the sky. About two weeks after Fu-Fu left she had even stopped eating that much. Everyone else was starting to grow very worried, but nothing they did or said helped.