Lee explains to Sakura that some countries speak other languages, and names a few countries and languages that they mainly speak.

  After the explanation Sakura is crestfallen. “So they are not talking in a secret language?” she asks disappointed; Lee shakes his head. “But can a brother and sister have a secret language?”

  Lee nods. “Yes, some siblings do have a secret language, that sometimes only they know and understand.”

  Sakura gives a small jump on top of the bed, then sitting on her knees she asks, “Can we have a secret language?”

  As Lee is using his phone he nods, but Sakura yells in joy thinking that Lee was answering to her.

  “But, how do we make language?” Sakura asks. As she doesn’t get a reply from Lee she taps him on the forehead. Lee looks up and Sakura asks again, “You said we can have secret language; how we make one?”

  “I was…” Lee stops as Sakura is looking at him with puppy-eyes. “Fine, I will think about it.”

  “Yay!” Sakura says jumping from the bed and does a little victory dance.

  “What can I do about the secret language?” Lee thinks. A few memory fragments flash in his mind, from coding messages, codes used in espionage, and communication forms using whistles and tongue clicks. Finally, he does a search on his phone; happy with his findings he says, “Saki. Salve soror.”

  “What?” Sakura asks looking around. Lee repeats ‘salve soror’. “What is that? I don’t understand you.” She says looking weird at him.

  Lee smiles, then placing his left hand with open palm up between them and a bit to the left side says, “Salve soror.” Then placing the right hand between them with open palm up and a bit to the right says, “Hello sister.”

  Sakura starts to clap her hands. “Is that our secret language?” Lee nods. “So what about if I want to say ‘Hello big brother’?”

  Lee smiles and says, “Only say ‘salve frater’, meaning ‘hello brother’.” Lee uses his hands like before then he says, “But if you want to call me like you do, we can always mix the two languages: ‘salve onni-chan’.”

  Sakura nods. “So we use the word ‘salve’ for hello?” Lee nods his head once and claps his hands softly. “This is going to be complicated to do.”

  “Yes, but it will be worse to write,” Lee says, laughing internally having used Latin as a secret language; then, grabbing the book from his desk, he writes ‘Salve frater'. “This is how we are going to write, so no one can understand.”

  “I no understand too!” says Sakura.

  “I know! I will make a list of letters: the correct ones, and the code ones.” Lee then writes the same words like before, but this time leaves a bigger space gap between the letters; then, under it, he writes the same words but uses the Latin alphabet instead of the Greek alphabet. “This one on the top is how we will write; this one on the bottom is the correct way.”

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  “Okay,” Sakura says as she looks at the paper.

  Lee sits at his desk and makes a full list of the alphabet; on the top line he uses the Greek alphabet, capitals and lower case, then underneath he uses the Latin alphabet. “Here, take this and practice how to make these letters. Then I can teach you the words,” says Lee as he passes the page to Sakura.

  Sakura takes the page and looks it over. "Can I use my tablet to practice?" Lee nods and Sakura goes away.

  Another week goes by, and Sakura has been practicing every day writing the letters; Lee tests her too and finds out that Sakura has memorised almost three quarters of the alphabet.

  “Hello brother,” says Sakura in Latin, after breakfast going into Lee’s room. Lee replies in Latin too with a smile; then Sakura continues in Japanese. “Are you going to teach me more today? We don’t have school.”

  Lee shakes his head. “Maybe after dinner; now I go into the woods,” he says, looking at the clear sunny sky. “Maybe I will bring some meat today,” he adds, as on the day before he nearly caught a rabbit twice.

  “Just be careful,” says Sue from the door with a chuckle; then adds, “unless you would like to come shopping with me and Saki.”

  Lee starts to shake his head as he leans back away from his mum. Then, pointing out the window, he says, “The woods are safer; we are almost in the summer holidays and the shops are a wild jungle.” Sue laughs and, taking Sakura’s hand, as they walk out the room.

  Lee has been in the woods, leaning against a tree drinking some water. That is when he hears the shake of the foliage; being now familiar with the flora, he pins where the sound is coming from. Then, with an arrow loaded and at the ready, he turns around, only to be faced with a giant boar with massive tusks charging towards his direction; as he tries to get out of the way he trips and lets go of the arrow.

  Lee sees the arrow fly and then he hears the sound of the arrow impaling the boar right in the eye; the arrow goes so deep in that only a small portion is visible; then the boar slumps to the ground, dead. Lee nocks another arrow and approaches carefully, but the boar doesn't move.

  Then, on closer examination, Lee realises the state of the body. “This looks like claw marks,” Lee says, looking at the cuts; then he hears a twig snap. He turns around and finds a wolf standing there. Looking at the wolf, quick memories flash in Lee’s mind; comparing this wolf to the ones in the memories, he realises that this wolf is just about the same size as the ones from the memories. The wolf is not showing any signs of going to attack, but its body is tensed. So Lee extends the bow in front of himself then tosses it to the side; he repeats the same thing with the quill with the arrows.

  Slowly Lee steps away from the bow and arrows and closer to the boar, without ever removing his eyes from the wolf; then, lowering himself, he reaches for the arrow that is in the boar's eye. “Sorry I took your kill; you can have it.” Lee manages to remove the arrow from the eye and there are bits of brain at the tip. The wolf is only looking at Lee with curiosity. Lee takes a wide circle around and approaches the bow.

  The wolf, looking at Lee, approaches the boar, then sniffs it before biting into its neck. Lee takes this chance to grab the bow and arrows quiver and gets away from the wolf. He can hear the sound of the tearing of flesh. When Lee thinks he is safe, he sits down, wipes the sweat from his forehead and takes a drink to calm down; then he hears a soft snarl followed by a bark. He looks at the source and finds the wolf approaching.

  Lee gets to his feet, then jumps and kicking off the main trunk, holds onto a branch and climbs the tree; looking down, he finds the wolf sat on the ground where he was moments before, looking up at him with its head tilted; then, letting out a soft bark, it drops something on the ground before going away.

  Lee stays on top of the tree for a bit longer to be sure that the wolf is not coming back; as he is high up, he has a bird's-eye view of the ground. Then, nocking an arrow, he lets it fly; the sound of the arrow piercing his target is heard; then he waits a bit longer.