1 April 1623

We've been traveling fast these days, trying to get home as quickly as possible. It's going to be lovely to get to sleep in my own bed with my husband again. I think we're slowly working our way to a new kind of marriage, one that works with the new way we're living our lives. I miss the old way we were married, but this new way is nice too.

4 April 1623

We'll be home in just two days! I almost can't believe it. It's been so long since I've been home with my family that I almost can't believe it's going to happen. I wonder how the garden is going to look, after being abandoned for so long. I hardly had time to tend to it last time we were here. Dolora's going to be quite upset that it's so overgrown, but she'll tend to it and fix it like always.

6 April 1623

We're home! I'm writing this at my old desk, my mother-in-law is in the garden patiently weeding it and watering all the plants, my best friend is in the village with Hannah and their daughter and all his siblings, and my husband is lying on our bed reading peacefully. The sun is shining through the window at a lovely angle that shines on every wispy flyaway of his curly hair. He's so lovely. If I kissed him right now, I think he would kiss me back and unlace my corset like he does and make me gnaw on his shoulder so I don't cry out.

But I'll wait until evening to do that. Right now I'll write, and then read some, and help Dolora cook dinner, and catch up with all my friends in the village. It's so nice to be home.

8 April 1623

We've been planning so much lately. Every day we meet with Neolla and Mariek and sometimes even Sumner to plan everything out. We've been sending letters, and Candas says she'll be here on April tenth to discuss everything.

We're so close.

10 April 1623

We are so close! I can't believe it. Candas is going to be here in a few hours to have tea and plan. Dolora's brewing tea right now and I'm just sitting here at my desk jittering. Simonn's trying to calm me down, but there's no way I can be any less excited than I am. We're going to change things. We're going to do this.

16 Apirl

Oh my goodness…I can't write. It's too impossible. Somebody wake me up from this nightmare. I'd even take waking up in that cell in Candas's—the Condesce's castle to this.

Sigmun…