An Outsider

Chance of treasure

At the mention of it, Gabriela Pratt's mouth turned down in regret, "It's all Whitney's fault, saying there's so much treasure in this well and having to dig up some kind of treasure. And now it's turned into this..."

The Grand Admiral's House had a visitor, a distant relative of his mother's who was in the main city of Gaia on business and had stopped by to visit the Grand Admiral's House. Whitney remembered that the visitor was his first cousin, his mother's distant cousin - Lamar Conway Yeon. The first cousin had brought his marriage partner, also a woman, and their child, a girl his age, to the Grand Admiral's house and had stayed there ever since. During this time Whitney used to go and play with the girl, only the girl was exceptionally rigid and earnest, and knew nothing at all of Whitney's jokes, and had to argue everything on its merits.Whitney later became unhappy and did not go to his again.

"Perhaps it would be warmer for us to cuddle together." Lucio Ginger suggested.

It