Scene 1: Helena's bedside in St. Mungo's Janus Thickey Ward
Time: late August 2108

Violet was sitting beside her mother's bed, as she had been doing every day for nearly two months, reading over one of her pieces in her writing journal. Every once in a while she glanced up and looked over at the sleeping form of her mother, Helena Blackthorne Hurst. She hadn't seen her mother since she was a little girl and had been starting to forget her. Even now, she was having trouble reconciling the face on the bed before her with the idealized and younger version in her memory. She was dying of both concern and curiousity, anxious to find out more about her mother's condition, but also eager to find out just where she had been all these years.

But the healers were still unwilling to make a firm diagnosis, yet, and as for what had happened over the last ten or so years, Violet would have to wait until (not if! her mother remembered. So for now, she read, and wrote, and waited.