With everything and everyone gone, there was nothing left to do but start over.
Pippin and Catherine were married, with only God as their officiant and young Theo as witness. Afterwards, the new family headed back to the estate, which just like the rest of the kingdom, was completely barren.
Nonetheless, they continued to work. Planting, sowing, harvesting, cooking and cleaning.
Pippin taught Theo what he had learned from his educators, as well as took time to explore and play with him just as any father should.
Theo was soon calling him "Papa", which pleased both of them.
Catherine and Pippin remained deeply in love, taking whenever a moment they could be alone without Theo's nuisance. Sometimes they would wait for him to go out for his morning chores or when he went to bed. Another time they snuck out to the barn and up into the hayloft, and later to a hidden spot on the riverbed.
After some months, Catherine became with child, with which the family became overjoyed.
When the pregnancy reached its fifth month, Pippin insisted she lessen her workload to keep both her and the baby safe. While he and Theo plowed in the fields and overlooked the livestock, she would plant and water in their gardens and mend and sew clothing and linens.
Finally on a stormy night, as Theo hid under his bed sheets from the loud claps of thunder, his mother started her labor. All night she struggled with Pippin at her side, the pain becoming unbearable, much more so than when Theo had come into the world years before. There were times she came close to giving up, but knowing the job had to be done, she continued to fight through the contractions.
In the early hours of the morning, just as the sun rose over the fields of the estate, Catherine delivered a baby girl into her husband's arms, and they gave her the name Livitha.
Theo was invited in to meet his new sister, and he watched intrigued as Pippin showed him how to hold the fragile child.
As he watched his wife and children bond, he thought to himself-
"This is the real corner of the sky…"
And so he kissed little Livitha, and his beloved Theo and Catherine, promising himself to never let them go.