Nicholas had been furious when he had seen the bed made that way in Heidi's room. The first thought that had passed through his mind that she had run away. Away, to follow the man and he wished he had killed the man to avoid so much of trouble. A human feet could carry only a certain amount of distance and with the rain that had poured down so heavily there was no way, one could get out of the forest.
Emotions had flooded in at the thought of her disappearing. He had searched for through the thicket of trees until he found her pocket watch which she might have dropped when she got into the cave. He had been frantic until he had found her and the last time these emotions had surfaced was when his mother died. Heidi looked at Nicholas, his emotions bare in front of her eyes. Anger, love, fear, sadness, she saw them all for more than a fleeting moment.
