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[Waking up from being asleep for a year is much like coming out of a coma. It took Mary a few days to feel truly herself again, but now she's back and well and truly confused about what happened to her.

The last that she remembered, she had finally been able to smash the damn harp in her dreams and get some rest from the depression that constantly haunted her for weeks. One night she drifted off and the next thing she knew it was May... a year later. Obviously, much has happened and she wonders why she had to be the one to be put into a magical sleep and miss everything.

She experienced a dream, or what felt like a dream, during her sleep - that she was back at Downton and that she had interacted with her family members, even lived her life there for a year while her body was asleep here. The details of what happened are clear, though remembering it feels like watching everything happen through a veil over her face.

On the locket she appears rested, to say the least. She's bathed, washed her hair, and styled it so that she looks presentable. But there's confusion and a bit of fear in her eyes as she tries to get answers.]

Have I truly been asleep for a year? I fear this could be quite a long conversation, but what have I missed? And was I the only one afforded this privilege of missing out on a year of my life?

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An entire year?

[Lia is surprised. Quite surprised but she tries to smooth her face into something generic and pretty. It wouldn't do to scare her, after all. And she had absently wondered where Lady Mary was, throughout the year.]

I am afraid you would have to be more specific, mademoiselle.

You weren't the only one. I know someone who just woke up too. I slept through most of it myself.

{The year had been difficult - filled with obstacles - yet he can't imagine having slept through it.}

I am ready to help you, my lady, should you not encounter your companions. The world is much changed.

Could have been longer. I know one woman who was asleep for.....oh, must have been around 28 years at least. But then, this wasn't a Sleeping Curse. I don't think you were the only one though.

[Really, Mary. You're comparatively lucky in that. A year is still a long time, but nothing in comparison to Aurora. Or herself potentially if Charming hadn't found her and woken her with True Love's Kiss.]

So what happened while you were asleep, exactly? You say you...went home?

A-ah? You were asleep the whole time? Are you okay?

[Isn't too much sleep bad for you? Let alone. That long.....? And this coming from the teenager who literally couldn't sleep back home during her Angel Transformation. This is the opposite problem but still clearly serious!]

There were others.

[It is Dorian, but it isn't. His manner is different, his voice changed. Even so, he looks on her without malice, even almost with a kind of kindness. And indeed, it seems it really is kindness, as he first asks:] Are you feeling all right now?

Mary! [The year - actually, more the past few months - haven't been easy on Charles. He's not quite the state of disarray before he'd come here, but he looks tired and carelessly unkempt. Although pleased to see her.]

You fell asleep at the same time the monarchs left and the fairy rings stopped working. It's not unheard of for people to do so for weeks or months, but a year is - well, a little more unusual. It's good to see you.

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