Letters to the Distant SkyCh. 2 · The Keeper's Daughter
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My handwriting. I was nineteen.
Then it's yours. Or his. I came to—
I know what it says.
He never answered it.
Maybe he—
Throw it in the sea, girl. It'll get there faster.
She thinks her father ignored her.
Why didn't he answer?
Emiko Tachibana. The keeper's daughter.
He never read it.
It came on a Tuesday. November, 1994.
The cape road was under the sea.
I told myself: tomorrow.
The storm took the keeper that night.
And I put a letter in a tin.
You never told her it came too late?
Better a father who didn't answer...
...than a postman who didn't knock.
Two winters ago, Sora left on the 7:40.
I didn't go. I thought a goodbye was something you could skip.
She's taken him flowers for thirty years, Mr. Jin.
I'm not skipping this one.
Haru—
I told you to throw it away.
It never reached him. The storm closed the cape road.
That's the night he died.
The postman kept it. He was ashamed.
I wrote that I'd come home for New Year.
I thought he didn't want me to.
Why would a kid do this for a stranger?
Because I have one I never sent, too.
Then send it, girl.
Don't be like us.
Sunday's cancelled.
There are forty-one more.
"To whoever lives at 3 Gull Lane."
That's my house.