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Heather: I know it’s been a while... and I don’t know what happened. But I just wanted to let you know I’m doing well. I married one of my friends from high school. His name is Mauve. I think you would like him.

Rune: Heather, I can explain everything. But I’m glad you’re happy. Things haven’t been the same since that night. And I regret it all but I’m glad that you’ve moved on and found happiness with someone who could give it to you. 

Heather: I’m writing you again because I have big news and I thought it would be horrible of me not to share. I’m expecting a baby girl here in a month. 

Rune: That is amazing! Sky is expecting as well. We’re finding out the gender tomorrow. I wish we got along better.

I went back home, and not too long after that your father was born. And I wanted what was best for him, and so I remembered what my mother... well what the ghost of my mother had told me. So I went along a lot with what Sky wanted for him. 

She wanted to keep him out of the homeschooling system and teach him ourselves since a lot of the girls we grew up with went out to marry berries of different colors. We kept a close watch over him, and while he wasn’t arranged to be married when he was little, Sky knew she could find someone to agree when he got older. 

Rune: This is all my fault. I wasn’t here to protect her. 

Slate: Rune, you can’t blame yourself. You had nothing to do with this. She just wasn’t healthy enough. 

Rune: Why? Why? Why?

Slate: Rune, I appreciate you coming all this way, but you should really go back home. 

Rune: I need to see her. 

Smoke: Hey girls. Thanks for making the trip.

Lena: So this is it? I figured the Fairyfloss’s would have a bigger vacation home. 

Smoke: Hey now, size doesn’t matter. 

Lena: Is that what you tell every girl?

Heather: I’d love to be your wife Rune. But I don’t think we should rush into anything... when are you and Sky supposed to get married?

Rune: Next year. 

Heather: So soon... How about around Christmas time? You come back for good and we can get married around all of the lights and the snow. 

Rune: You mean it?

At first I was scared, and I was a little envious. But eventually I grew to see myself in him, and I let him go when Carnation came back for him. I guess I wished that Heather would come back for me. But I can’t blame her for what happened. And I can’t blame myself for what happened to her.