Not only was Elise who was surprised but Ian was taken by the sudden news he found.
"How sure you are of the words you said?" Ian asked, demanding for answer. It only comes to him until now that his mother was hiding many things he was never aware of. Such of it was that she had some friends to sent letter with. Now that he had seen the letters, he remembered of the days when he came to visit his mother on the tall isolated tower of the mansion where she would have some quill and inkwell but nothing ever seem to appear on what she was writing on the table. There was no paper and he often asked her what she wrote.
He could hear his mother's voice on the back of his ears like yesterday, 'I was writing a wish, folding it into this shape and let it run free to the sky. Maybe then someone would hear my wish.' His mother chuckled. When he asked again what her wish was, she replied that her wish was all for his safety and health.