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as Perdita took residence in the bed which had been her sister's,
but there should be no mistaking the true authority of Bly Manor,
that one night, she found a child in her daughter's old bed,
Do you even know how to dance?
It was her mother's room. Her parents' bed, and now hers.
fitting the business arrangement that it was.
Her fate was a nightmare.
More than all, my sister wanted Bly to flourish.
A taste her husband would indulge.
she had accumulated in her days before the sickness.
Thus, she would sleep,
Almost with secrecy.
and Viola would remember.
This absolute abandonment.
She would sleep.
for the benefit of her daughter,
Nightly, in fact.
And in time, as we all do…
Waking.
Viola had made certain to be absent when he arrived.
Viola had surpassed the predictions
She would wake.
after Isabel was born.
An oath.
It had spread, insistent.
If not in law, in spirit.
to have and to hold from this day forward,
I promise you.
But Perdita's desires, as you will have observed,
even the soul.
No, perhaps it was something else.
One, two, three.
Having forgotten, she would wake.