While Rebecca was leaping and soaring like a graceful deer on the Edinburgh stage, Vance sat in a hospital room in Paris, watching the performance videos.She was so beautiful and talented. In the videos, she looked exactly like the lively, sprite-like girl she had been in high school.This was who she truly was and who she was always meant to be. She wasn't a bird with broken wings or a caged canary. She had always been a forest elf—light, agile, vibrant, and full of life.The moment she appeared beside an ordinary man like him, she lit up his world. He watched the videos over and over, asking himself again and again, "Vance Bradford, how could you have brought yourself to hurt such a beautiful elf?"Now the elf had flown back to the forest and would never return to him. Yet somehow, he felt that it was right."May you fly toward what you love, without hesitation or doubt. May your heart lead you across boundless starry skies," he muttered.Anna walked in with a stern expression
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