The Beginning of a Journey (Fiction)

The third in a series of scenarios about the young physician Will.

It was a cold, blowy, sleety early morning in February. Will and Goodie were at the cottage of Grandmother Sophie, prepared for a journey. They sat together in the small, cosy room, in the firelight. It was a place that seemed to enfold the concentration of all the well-being they knew, and it contrasted sharply with the harsh Wintry world outside. 

Gran…