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Giselle considers going to be with Michel, even if he wanted her to live a long and happy life without him. Her musings are met by creepy red text! Someone says it's not a guarantee she'll get to see him again...the witch? Oh dang. The witch Morgana.

The witch promises that Giselle can meet with Michel again - not now, but in a future life...as a reconstruction. It won't be exactly the same, but then again, nothing is. Morgana promises to wish for his reconstruction as well... but not hers. Giselle must live on, care for the mansion, do all the corporeal things that Morgana is incapable of, and then, maybe - she'll be able to see a reconstruction of Michel once more.

This was the moment that Giselle became the Maid. All her basic human urges vanished - desire to eat, sleep, etc. She explores the mansion after she has experienced these changes, wondering what else about the place has changed. She explores her bedroom, finding that defaced painting that Michel was once so angry about. The painting smirks at her as she looks it over once more. Freaky.
She finds letters written by Michel, and it's as though someone has dumped ink on every page to prevent her from reading them. She blames this on the witch, as well as the creepy smirk on the painting.

The doors and windows won't open. All she can do is clean. If she cries, the witch laughs. There's no one to interact with. She reads the hundreds of tomes in the library in no time at all. She already had PTSD, y'all. This is NOT helping. The witch is taking the Portal/GLaDOS approach by reminding Giselle every day that Michel hasn't returned, and mocking her for still believing and praying that he will.

1099-1200... 100 years have passed. 1200-1300. Another hundred, the Maid starts to lose her sense of self. She focuses, not on the facts of her 21 years of life, but on the fact that Michel was real, and that he loved her. 1300-1400. The witch starts being a bit nicer now [better late than never??]. Morgana urges her to make maid's garments. 1400-1500. The Maid struggles to recall details about Michel, and hopes he will come quickly. 1500-1591. A guest arrives. Morgana urges the Maid to... be a maid, I guess.

She greets one Hayden Rhodes, who is the Rhodes' siblings grandfather. Wow, we've really gone back in time, eh? Giselle does not recognize the surrounding landscape at all. Hayden trains Giselle to speak and act in a certain way. He's a middle-aged man!! Where is my middle-aged man sprite! I need it!! Okay, I'm probably the only person playing this game that actually wanted a middle-aged man sprite here, but ... still. Gimme.

Hayden renovates the home, boards up the entrances to the chapel and observation tower, and plants the rose garden with lush varieties from around the world. He speaks of his grandchildren, and he almost mentions third but then settles on when the second was born in conversation. What does that mean, I wonder? Must be the first tale with White-Haired Girl!

See you Friday!

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