I stopped all my online activities as soon as this new chapter appeared ...
I'm glad that Sully stops being angry but it was so heartbreaking to watch Josef try and not succeed. All through the scene I hoped ... She wants to see Cloud Dancing!!! Happy sigh here...
Great job, Debby - looking forward to tomorrow!!

I'd like to add something about depression: it is not a question of your will if or if not you get over it. The chemistry in your brain is out of order - sometimes it helps just to wait till it works right again, sometimes you need medicine. The way Michaela acts has nothing to do with being selfish; she is simply sick (and Debby describes the symptoms perfectly).

Thanks for pointing out the information about depression, Marion. In addition, much more is known about it today than in the 19th century. They called it "melancholia," and some of the treatments for it would be considered barbaric today. DQ touched on the subject in "Before the Dawn."
In my stories, I have depicted Sully as suffering from it at times. Today, we have numerous medicines to treat it, but strange as it seems, in those days, they would perform ovariotomies to treat "Menstral Madness," a form of insanity! Today we call it PMS.
Debby K