The Story Book

  Cont... Cass didn't think he'd ever get over how small adults looked when they thought he wasn't looking. How their shoulders sometimes curled in and true emotions came out and how they seemed to dim when no one was looking.  Mama and Uncle Sam were like that. They were faking normality for him and AJ. Smiling with smiles that didn't quite reach their eyes. Went and did things with them as their faces were not quite there. Said they were fine and cried behind closed doors.  Cass wasn't a fool. He knew it was bad. But what frustrated him most was that they wouldn't tell him anything straight. It was white lies and half-truths. Not the cold hard truth, plain and simple. They were dancing around everything like he was glass. He wanted to scream. He wanted the truth.  That's why he ended up creeping silently down the black stone halls deep in the palace to try and find the medical wing. He wanted to know the truth. Wanted to see just what Mama and Uncle Sam, a