After New Year, Hilda and Johanna walked to David's house to feast with David and his family along with Frida's to enjoy the night together.
Hilda: Wow, David. Your family is a great cook.
David: Oh, really? Thanks.
David blushes a little which only his parents and Johanna notices before resuming to eat.
Frida: She is absolutely right, the food here is pretty great.
Hilda: Maybe it's the fact that you're a freed slave and never ate anything good until now.
Johanna: Hilda! Language and Manners!
Hilda: Sorry mum.
The others ate in celebration and then Hilda and Johanna waved goodbye to them as they walked home.
Tomorrow
Hilda wakes up with Dagger immediately climbing to the bed to greet Hilda with a lick to the cheek.
Hilda: Oh Dagger! You really wanted to be with me.
Johanna: Hilda, breakfast is ready!
Hilda: Coming mum!
Hilda now changes to her regular attire and walks down with Dagger to eat breakfast.
Hilda: Oh I forgot,Twig! Maybe after this I ca-
Johanna: Remember, you're restricted but Twig is something to worry about, but I'm coming with you.
Hilda: Ok mum.
Johanna: Now let's finish our breakfast first.
They finished their breakfast and went to change their attire to visit Twig in the hospital.
Outside there is the doctor and the veterinarian with a sad face below their heads.
Hilda: What's wrong?
Doctor: You need to come inside.
Johanna: Did something happen to Twig?
Veterinarian: Oh very much.
Follow us to his cage.
They walked into the doctor's room and the veterinarian section and up to Twig's cage and saw Twig laying dead just near the bars of the cage.
Hilda and Johanna: Twig!
Hilda and Johanna immediately rush to the cage to see Twig in his final form before sobbing quietly.
Doctor: I think he passed out in New Year's. I'm really sorry.
Hilda and Johanna are now in heavy tears, now knowing that he died without their knowledge and now asked for a place for Twig to be buried.
Hilda: Where can we bury him?
Doctor: There is no more space around here but you can take the cage and bury him in your backyard.
Veterinarian: You can take the cage if you want.
Johanna: Thank you for the permission, doctor.
Doctor: Just doing my job.
Hilda and Johanna carry the cage towards her backyard and then recite Christian scripture as Twig's cage is slowly lowered to the ground by Hilda and then they cover the cage with dirt and dug a gravestone to commemorate him.
As Johanna goes back inside the house,Hilda is still outside and now kicks the gravestone in a fit of grief and it left a bloodstain from her toe and went back inside.
Johanna: Would you like some meat pie for now?
Hilda: I suppose.
While Johanna is cooking the meat pies, Hilda walks upstairs and sits in her bedroom,crying over the Twig's death.
While she is crying, Dagger walks in and starts to be worried for her.
Hilda: Dagger, please go away for now.
Dagger complied to Hilda's command.
Hilda: Wait? Dagger, wait. Please
stay. I think I needed you in this dark time.
Dagger walks back to Hilda and now is in Hilda's lap, being comforted to relieve her from the death of Twig.
Johanna watches Hilda caressing Dagger's back and is happy that she is able to recover.
Johanna walks in and caresses her hand on Hilda's hair and back to comfort her as she is also sad that Twig is gone.
After the day of Twig's burial, Hilda embraced Dagger as she sees him as a wolf pup that helped her recover, Johanna sees him as a pet who can help Hilda recover after another traumatizing death.
Hilda was able to recover after a few months after Twig's death.
Before long, they heard a knock downstairs, they walked downstairs to open the door and see Frida and David.
David: Hey Hilda. How's Twig?
Frida: David! Can't you see the tears in her face? Have some manners for her a little bit.
Hilda: No, I'm fine. What are you gonna say?
David: Do you wanna come with us on the lake, it's a hot summer today.
Hilda: Sure! I'm coming with my new pet, Dagger.
Frida: Wait, you're saying that you got a new pet?
Hilda: I'm not saying that I abandoned Twig, I still cherish him in my heart, but Dagger has comforted me after-
Frida: After what?
David: Frida, I think what she meant is-
Hilda: I'm going, wait up!
Hilda slams the door and rushes upstairs to change to her outdoor attire and pack up her swimming attire and walks downstairs.
Hilda: I'm ready.
David: Why are you- Nevermind, let's just go.
Frida: The carriage is now here.
The trio now entered the carriage and is now travelling down the road to the lake.
David: Alright, we are now at the lake. Let's go change.
Frida: Maybe me and Hilda first then you next, obviously.
David: Sure.
Hilda and Frida went to the changing stations and changed to their swimming attire.
David: Wow, you look hot in your swimming attire.
Hilda: David! Stop flirting with us!
David: I'm just kidding with you! Don't be a jerk because of my jokes.
Frida: David,remember. You gotta change as well.
David: Oh yeah. I forgot.
David then grabs his swimming attire and goes to the changing station to change to his swimming attire.
Hilda: Wow David! Your swimsuit is just as hot as ours.
David: Oh my! Now you're just teasing me.
Hilda: Same as you did to us back there.
Frida: Ok, can we stop and get to the lake already?
Hilda and David: Sure.
The synchronized saying of 'Sure' made them look at each and then look away from embarrassment.
Hilda: Alright, we are now at the lake. So here is my new pet, Dagger.
Frida: What animal is he?
Hilda: I think he's a wolf.
Dagger woofs in approval.
David: So you're saying you adopted a wolf?
Hilda: I think, just found him on the street while visiting Twig.
Frida: So he is now your new pet?
Hilda: Yup. Now let's go swim.
David: Yeah, it's already getting hotter and hotter every minute.
They swam at the lake, mostly just throwing water at each other and challenging each other who could breathe underwater the longest with Dagger just swimming with them to join.
Hilda: I think we need to eat.
Frida: Yeah, we're starving in the lake, let's go and eat for a while.
David: Sure.
They walked back to shore with Dagger in Hilda's arms and unpacking the food they brought with them.
David: I got a question for you, Hilda.
Hilda: Yeah, David?
David: Why did you choose to keep Dagger?
Hilda: Because…….. because….
David: See, it means you don't care about Twig at all.
Hilda: That's not what I meant.
David: After Twig dies, you decided to ditch him because he's boring.
Hilda: No-
David: Yes, Twig is a much better pet than Dagger.
Hilda: How do you know that?
David: Twig is always there for you and helps you out at all times. And the fact that you ditched him for Dagger, a worthless wolf you found in the streets shows how much you actually don't care for Twig.
Hilda is now overthinking over how to say something against David's words but she can't think of any and she now breaks down and pushes David with his food in his hands to the lake.
David: Hilda?! Why did you do that?!
Hilda: I don't wanna think about it. It hurts me.
Frida: Then why did you do that?!
David: Frida! Help me ou-
David is now slowly sinking in the lake, Frida notices and dives down to save David from drowning.
Frida then brings David to shore and confronts Hilda on why she has done it.
Frida: Hilda! Explain yourself!
Hilda: Let me explain! Twig died!
Frida and David were shocked to hear this but they weren't even going to apologize to her for what she has done.
David: Come on guys! Let's just go.
Frida: Right. Hilda? You coming?
Hilda: I'm coming.
They packed up their stuff and went home and never said anything about what happened at the lake to their parents.
Hilda now arrives back to the village and walks to her house with Dagger covered in a towel to dry himself up.
Johanna: Hilda, you're home early.
Hilda: Yeah, we decided to go because it was a high tide in the lake so we had to go.
Johanna: Good to know you knew about the tide in the lake, now go upstairs and change.
Hilda: Yes mum.
Hilda walks upstairs and changes to her proper attire and sits down in her bed, now contemplating David's words about Twig but she dismisses them.
Hilda: Dagger, we are not done with him yet. If he comes back, I'm giving him the way he likes it.