While waiting for Tara and Therese to visit their grandparents, the honeymooners were led to the cabin by the stream they had requested. A boy from the nearby house helped carry their supplies to the door.
They had gathered enough provisions for a week's stay—simple food, an extra oil lamp, and a few fishing hooks.
Tristan was in high spirits. He silently thanked the Moon Goddess for granting one of his deepest wishes: a family reunion. To give and receive forgiveness meant there would finally be less guilt to carry, fewer old wounds left to fester.
"Ha… ha… ha…" Tristan laughed softly to himself.
Tara had never mentioned that he and his sister were both named after her grandparents—Tristan and Therese. Months earlier, he had teased Shannon about being named after Shannon the Elder, his grandfather from his mother's side.
