’ ‘Eventually the worst happened. I came back across the roof and when I climbed into our bedroom, I was faced with my father and mother. My fathe... asked me where I had been, and I told him I had gone to meet Colin, that I loved him and wanted to marry him. My father started removing his leather belt, telling me I would marry whomever he told me to, and started beating me. He beat me so badly that when I became Bernard’s wife three weeks later, I was still bruised.’ ‘Bernard and I were married. The sun was out, and the day was getting fairly warm for late April — and my birthday just so happens to be Earth Day! — but it was cooler once we got in the shade of the woods. The trees were in full leaf, and as brilliantly green as spring ever gets, while shade-tolerant wildflowers were in full bloom. The path went steadily downhill, since we were headed toward the river. Jen stopped us at this downed tree, with a kind of strange look on her face, and then we sat down because she wanted a. But while Kim sleeps, I love to sit here, watching her. The moon, in it’s early morning phase, shines through the window over her thin frame. The thin white drapes focusing the beams onto Kim’s sleeping body. With each breath, the cotton linen moves. With each breath, my dreams scream to be released. But I sit. I watch. I dream. My dreams to make Kim happy have been a struggle. The old pickup truck outside is not the family car we had wanted. The house is warm and comfortable. But it’s not the. We were leaving Suzail to make our way to Edmond's Field, and Anarion was not telling me about his knighting. That is very typical of him, by the way, but it was much more pronounced on the days immediately following Quinlan's passing. He was then and remains to be a very private man. I will reveal as much of his doings as is prudent, but understand that always you (and I, to my frustration) will only learn as much as he wishes, not what fully transpired.As I have said earlier, I am not lacking.