The loss of time in this street always fluttering with snowflakes gives an unusual sense of blur, and Ulysses does not even see the sun coming out of the sky once.

Before you know it, seven days have passed.

In the gray and white streets, Ayu was the only bright color, always wearing the red headband and yellow coat, she would appear on the other side of the street on time every day, and run merrily to where Ulysses was.

The snow-white pigeon had been following her, and the bird, accustomed to the cold climate of the north, was not afraid of life at all, and even jumped on Ulysses' shoulder when Ayu was concentrating on his studies.

Over the course of seven days, Ulysses also explored other areas of the town, forming a rough outline in his mind.

Strangely enough, however, he couldn't get in that direction. There was something at the end of the street that stood in the way of his search for Ayu's home. He could have seen other people entering the area, but he couldn't get in.

Ulysses, who had wanted to talk to Ayu's father, had no choice but to abandon the plan and wait for Ayu's arrival every day in this place.

Ayu's ability to learn was amazing, and in just seven days, she learned the hundred words she needed to write a letter. Although each word was not neatly written, and could only be barely learned, she worked hard even to Ulysses, who had worked hard to take the priesthood exam.

It is a state of forgetting everything around you and putting all your mind into studying. In order to communicate with his mother, who is far, far away, Ayu has used all his strength.

The snow next to the bench was scratched and scratched, and the thick snow would be unrecognizable in the course of a day. Fortunately, the snowfall every night will restore it, and the next day it will become a natural place to practice calligraphy.

However, after the tenth day, the snow was finally not enough. Ulysses took Ayu to the woods on the edge of the town, where there was enough snow for her to practice and avoid being disturbed.

Even though no one on the street dared to interfere with Ayu's studies, there was always something strange about the way people looked at Ayu when they walked by. To be on the safe side, Ulysses finally decided to come here to continue teaching Ayu.

"Hello Mom, I'm Ya. On the snow-white ground, Ayu wrote this simple greeting over and over again,

Out of the range of Ulysses' thermostat, Ayu had large snowflakes falling from time to time, and it only took a few short minutes for her to look like a snowman.

But Yayu didn't feel cold at all, and wrote and wrote this simple sentence until she repeated it a hundred times, and then she ran back to Ulysses, feeling the warm temperature of the thermostat.

Her hands were red from the cold, and she kept breathing, trying to drive out the chill in her body. It's comfortable to practice within the range of thermostats, but if you want to write consecutive sentences, the snow isn't enough.

Ulysses actually wanted Ayu to practice with paper, but after searching the town, he was surprised to find that there was nothing in the town that could be called paper, except for a few books in the church. The level of knowledge here is even more impoverished than he imagined.

The priest in the town was already very old, but the level of magic was quite low, and he could barely use the simplest healing techniques. And this old man is already the most respected and respected elder in this town.

During this winter, this remote town feels like forgotten by the world. In the whole town, only Ayo's child remained.

Something seems wrong, if he didn't notice it at first, but now Ulysses has discovered the anomaly in this town.

It is impossible to continue a town with only one child, it is a world that is slowly dying out, and the relationship between people is gradually becoming fragmented.

The cause of this was a recent epidemic in which all the young children and the frail women and the elderly died of the disease - except for Ayu.

Perhaps it was because of the vitality that Ayu possessed that she overcame the invasion of the disease. However, after the epidemic ended, she was isolated by the people of the town, and the people who had lost their children and loved ones looked at Ayu with strange eyes, unable to understand why she was the only one who survived. ,

In this era when knowledge was not yet developed, people always had a sense of awe for the disaster of disease. In this cold winter, catching a plague is almost equivalent to hearing the call of death.

People in this era believed that it was a curse from the earth, as part of nature as the rising and setting of the sun. So they are not defeated by the epidemic and will move on with their lives after the grief has passed.

However, Ayu's survival shattered common sense, and the loss of children and loved ones made them feel uneasy about Ayu's survival alone in the midst of the epidemic, which was the fear of the unknown.

Why, only one of her children survived?

Why, only she didn't die after getting sick?

Why, even her mother is dead, and she can continue to live?

All kinds of doubts mixed together, and in the end, there was a great deal of apathy and suspicion. Ayu, who should have been cared for, lost not only her mother, but also her relationship with the people in the town.

Therefore, when she was crying alone, there would be no one to comfort her, so her father could only tell her about an impossible dream, and found a messenger who could trust that dream.

The snow-white wings represent freedom and the power to fly, and the dexterous body can go to any corner of the world. Ulysses didn't know how Ayu's father got his hands on the spirited Northland snow dove, but it did give Ayu hope.

Time passed, and by the thirteenth day, Ayu had finally mastered the vocabulary enough to write a letter. Although the handwriting is still very immature, it is enough for her to write a letter to express her heart to her mother.

So on the morning of the fourteenth day, Ayu took the pen and paper that Ulysses had borrowed from the old priest of the town, and began to write down all his thoughts on the letter paper word by word.

Ulysses did not look at the letter written by Ayo, because he knew that it was destined not to be received by anyone. Ayu's mother is in a world where no bird can fly to the end, no matter how high it can fly, and even with this letter, the white pigeon cannot fly to the end.

"Mom will be shocked to receive Ya's letter, and I really want her to see it sooner. Mother, why do you want to go so far away......" Ayu's expression, which was engrossed in writing the letter, was suddenly full of joy, sad and lonely.

When she encounters a word that she is not sure how to write, she will draw it again on the snow with a twig until she is sure that there are no mistakes at all.

After writing it, Yayu checked it many times. The letter was so important to her that she thoughtfully checked every word on it, lest there be a typo.

When he had checked it all, Ayu smiled unusually cheerfully, then folded the letter and put it in a wooden cylinder, plugged it with a few dried flowers, and tied it to the white dove's feet.

This sequence of movements was very fluent, and it was clear that Ayu had practiced it many times before Ulysses knew it.

"Go, remember to deliver this letter to where your mother is," Ayu folded his hands and wholeheartedly prayed to the white dove in front of her.

“......”

Ulysses gently patted the white dove's wings, then let it spread its wings in the palm of his hand and flew high into the air.

This was not the dove's intention, but Ulysses used some kind of magic on it, a trick that was not worth mentioning.

The effect of this magic is to "intimidate the animals", and the effect is to frighten the weak animals. The white dove that was cast this magic just flew into the air to escape the dangerous aura according to its instinct.

"Ah, if you fly, will your mother receive Ya's letter soon?"

"Maybe, so you'll have to hurry back and wait, or you might miss it. Ulysses looked at the gray-white sky, he was not willing to lie and deceive Ayu, he could only give such a vague answer.

"Well, I'll go home. Dad also said that he would give me a special gift today, which is related to Mom. Ayu waved his hand happily, and after several laps around Ulysses, he ran all the way to the end of the street.

"Uncle, goodbye, I'll come back to you tomorrow to study. At the end of the street, Ayu smiled goodbye to Ulysses.

"Hmm......" Ulysses nodded.

Looking at Ayuna's lonely back, Ulysses' heart ached faintly.

The white dove, startled by Ulysses' magic, fell from the sky, with the cylinder that Ayo had tied to his feet.

It's a matter of course, and this Northland snow pigeon has nowhere to go. The snow pigeon that could be used to deliver letters had been trained to deliver letters, and how could an ordinary snow pigeon, apparently untrained, send Ayu's letters.

Moreover, even the best-trained Northland snow pigeons could not complete the task of delivering the letter to heaven.

Therefore, Ayu's dream is absolutely unfulfillable, it is just a dream born out of a lie, a wish that can never be realized.

"Stay with me for a while, and if Ya comes, hide in the woods. Stroking the wings of the white dove beside him, Ulysses hid the cylinder