"It makes everything else red too, so even if it isn't normally, at dusk everything looks better..."

(Dusk couldn't stop the impulse to glance over at him when he said that; was that what her name was supposed to mean, then...?)

He went quiet at the other boy's second remark, though.

"... If I'm not home, Mother will worry..." It was, perhaps, a small admission, and yet, a rather large one for him.