Chell had finished delivering eggs to all her usual customers and was heading home under the soft patter of rain on her pick-ups windshield. She sighed with relief, she wasn't too fond of being in town all the time. The countryside was beautiful and almost surreal outside in the rain...freedom.

She drove up to her muddy driveway. All her chickens were scattered under different trees in the yard in an effort to remain dry.

She stepped out of her truck, several chickens coming by to see if she had any treats. She patted some of them gently on their backs heading inside.

She ran her hand through her damp hair, making her way to her living room sinking into her couch. She stretched her arms towards the ceiling peering out the window at the puddles forming outside.

Closing her eyes, she took a deep breath.

There was something she'd forgotten and it was important. She knew it. She ran her hands along her temples dampening her hands with the raindrops on her skin. She stared up at the ceiling trying to solve her problem.

She glanced at the window again.

"Oh no!" She jumped to her feet, scowling herself.

She ran back out into the rain, getting her jeans stained in mud as she splashed through puddles towards the back of the barn just across from her home.

In the back, she'd set up her garden, and sitting quietly humming to itself in the middle of the pouring rain was her companion cube. She wrapped her arms around it attempting to haul it into the barn and away from the rain, but it was heavy and slippery. The cube wasn't at all concerned or in a hurry to get dry humming quietly to itself all the while.

Chell finally managed to drag it around the side of the barn and through the front barn gate, creating a huge cube-shaped channel coming from the garden all the way to the front side of the barn that attracted the chickens for worm picking.

Chell sat down and leaned against the companion cube under the protection of the barn roof. She sighed; she needed to find a much better place to store her cube. She ran her fingertips on the cubes scorched glowing pink hearts. It was one of the few things she'd allowed herself to go back looking for. She'd probably wouldn't have gone back to look for it four years ago, the old her would have thought her crazy. She did it anyways several years later.

She mainly went back to prevent anyone from taking an interest in where the cube had come from. That had been her main objective, other than feeling curiosity about whether or not it was still there. To her surprise "She" hadn't moved it and didn't even seem to be aware she'd gone back to pick up the momento. Chell had been quick about that, not wanting to face "her", "she'd" been clear about not wanting Chell to come back.

Now the cube enjoyed mostly sunny days in the garden surrounded by chickens every so often just like Chell. She smiled on that last note.

Things had changed for the better, for her and her cube.

She was GlaD about that.