"There is a way I can fix this. We can save him. I just know there has to be…" I tell Fee repeatedly once I greet her at New York's harbor. I was practically a tape recorder turned on repeat. She was obviously getting annoyed and seconding her decision on coming to visit me but she just kept looking on out at the beautiful ocean that she had just escaped. I knew it was a long travel on the sea and understood that she came here for me.

It has been almost a year now since the wretched day when my friends, allies, and I faced the Winterlands creatures and the Tree of All Souls. Everyday thereafter I have faced the guilt when remembering the outcome. Soon, if what Fee thinks is true, I will have to come to except the truth of the aftermath. But this knowledge is to hard for me to come to believe. I knew the truth. Because of me, Kartik was still in the realms. Stuck there for there rest of forever, unless I have a say. I want to think that I can alter this. There is a way, somehow, that I can change this and Kartik will not be lost forever.

"I told you I would come and try to help you get through this," later she adds "don't expect more." I somewhat understood why she was so angry with me. We had both lost the loves of our lives. She does not like how I think that I can get mine back but hers is definitely lost forever. Because, Pippa has moved on.

Fee did not believe everything that I had wrote her since my arrival here in New York. Truly I don't think she believed any of it. In one of her responses she stated that she was going to catch the next ship deporting and stay with me for a while, to come to help and visit. I told her that it would be grand if she could come and that I have been researching ways to rescue my lost Indian boy. She did not believe this knowledge that I sent her in the letters, but know she could see the book to prove it.

" Gemma, dear, you truly don't still believe that there is still some possibility to rescue him do you?" she taunts. Her voice deepens when she says 'him'.

"Of course there is a way. You read my letters, yes?" I question her. Already knowing the answer. Of course she had read them, she had replied. Fee just did not have as much trust in the more dubious magic as I do.

"Yes. I did. But it is unhealthy for you to live this way. You need to accept it. That is how I finally got over Pip." I knew of course that there was also another reason Felicity came to visit me. She wants to visit the realms. She wants to feel happy again.

She wants Pip.

No. I would not accept this truth. Kartik cannot be stuck in the realms growing branches forever. He has helped me so much: he has always been there for me. Then he went and sacrificed his life for me! I would not allow this to be his closing act. There is the information in this book that led me to think this way. It told me that this dream of mine is possible, and it was a dream.

"You know that but the facts…" she trails off as I stop and remove my somewhat raggedy book from its hiding place. If guessed that this would be the easiest way to get her to stop. "Gemma, what on earth?"

I have been searching to find a way to save him form the start of my presence in America. The thought of leaving the truth behind me is nearly impossible. There is a way. My dreams and new awareness has led me to this. There are just a few pieces left to be found. My dream showed me at the Tree of All Souls. I was with Kartik at first but then I left. Suddenly I was by the tree again this time with Kartik's body. Then all blurs and my dream ends.

" There is a way. And I almost have to put the last of the puzzle together." I announce.

"Wait Gem. What do you know that you aren't telling me?" Fee is one of those people that hate being left out and not being the center of attention. This was the first characteristics of hers that I recognized.

" I have told you everything. It was all included in the letters. That is why you are here." Although it was her idea to visit me to begin with I was still overjoyed and hurried her here.

"What are you talking about…?" questioned Fee warily.

"You are going to help me!"

After arriving in America I have stayed in a small rented dwelling. It is not a great home but it has been I fine place to live the past year. Once back to the place that I have called home for some time now I show Felicity the book. She seems amazed by the knowledge in it. It tells the histories of the Winterlands through poetic stories written by its creatures. One of the early ladies of the order put the book together. The ones I've found oddly useful in it are the poems that tell of the Hall of Body.

The stories that tell of the hall of body, tell of the place where the body goes after the tree has taken the soul. When the Tree of All Souls takes live people it seizes the soul but the body goes to this remarkable hall. In this hall lie the bodies taken by the tree. It also said that the Tree, in the beginning, used the magic from the ground to keep it alive. This lost soul said that it had to be feed the souls when not given the realms magic. This one in particular gave me new hope.

After marveling over the book I ask her about people back in what was once my home. Quite suddenly she remembers and gives me a letter addressed to Miss. Doyle from Mr. Fowlson. It read.

Dear Miss Doyle,

How I hope New York is treating you well. I know how awful you feel about the loss of my former brother. I'm greatly sorry about that. I trust I can be of any help if you do try any scheme of rescue. Now you have my address so please write. I also write to inform you of other former Rakshana members that have transferred their living quarters to America. These listed can and possibly will be able to help you through this struggle, and I do hope the book I sent was also some help to you. They will know about the book and their time as Rakshana was before mine so their knowledge is greater in one certain area that might possibly interest you, the Tree of all Souls. Again I am so sorry about your trouble. I can truthfully say I know what you are going through. Please write to inform me on any matter and the outcome.

Forever an enemy or friend,

Mr. Fowlson

I pull out a sheet of paper from inside the envelope on which are listed two names. Neither of them, I realize, look familiar. This letter has put me in shock and I am quite startled when I notice Fee begging to see the letter.

"He must be crazy." She glares at the paper in between her frail ladylike looking fingers. " 'I trust I can be of any help if you do try any scheme of rescue.' He really thinks this can work. Hah" she laughs some more, "and how will we find these two anyway?"

" Of course this will work." I pause to stare at the letter, "We will find them!"

"Well I may not agree but I cannot let you go it alone. Even with these hooligans you will still need my help," she pauses slightly as if she is still making up her mind "I shall help you."