Thistle misses her tiger boy. She aches for him. But he doesn't know her. Right now, he's in love with another girl. Kelsey. Thistle has yet to meet her tiger, but she knows that they will fall in love. Her visions leave her longing for touches that will come long in the future. She wishes for the kiss of a man she hasn't met yet. She's known who she will marry since she was just a tiny girl. Dating anyone else has never been an option for her.
And now, she may never be able to find him. What she saw may never happen now. The future can change. Once she saw that she would fall playing tag with her cousin and break her mothers favorite vase. She didn't play tag with her cousin that day, and the vase didn't break. Nothing is set in stone. If the future was like she saw it because she got the shop owner to help her find Mr. Kadam, then everything could turn out differently now.
But Thistle is in too deep to stop trying. Her heart is undeviating. There will never be anybody else. She must find him. Or she'll die trying.