The reaction that lady Raspberry had to the news about Zombie was so much of a shock for her that she ended up completely bedridden, unable to even stand up and watch her rose garden from the window of her room.
It was both a blessing and a big problem at the same time and for the same reason β funnily enough.
Blessing β because she had no time to torment her daughter in mundane attempts to live her life through her which was as cruel as it was ineffective.
Problem β because there was no time for the mother and daughter to interact in any way with the resting lady Raspberry's room being off-limits for Cranberry β which kind of threw a wrench in the cogs of Zombie's plans for trying to patch up the already broken relationship.
One way or another, the two children ended up with a surplus amount of free time that could be spent in many different ways...
