Waffle took Ashley on an adventure that day. His rose-colored vision of the world warmed the girls spirit, and reinvigorated her depleted soul. They danced, played, sang, and froliced up a beautiful hillside to a high cliff overlooking the ocean far below. They shouted anything and everything into the wind and sea-salt-scented air; their words dissolving into nothingness and floating away unheard by anyone but themselves. It was the first of so many enchanted encounters to come, and almost instantly they were in love. In fact, on their one month anniversary Waffle pledged his undying love and begged for Ashley's hand in marriage. Laughing a delighted yes, the elated young couple floated through the next six months together like they were barely tethered to this material world. They played like two youngsters, unaware of anything but their world of magic and make-belive.
