It's what I would have had. If I hadn't...If I never figured out what the truth was, I could have it. [She pulls back, blotchy faced and wet-eyed, covering her nose with shaking fingers.] And my parents could have been there. And everyone would have been...They...
[She chokes again.]
I thought there was a chance they'd just be sleeping. After all this time, maybe the curse let them sleep too. That they were just under the briars, waiting to wake up. Just like me. But it...
[Her lip twitches. More tears fall.]
I think instead of a hundred years of sleep, it was just a hundred years.
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It's what I would have had. If I hadn't...If I never figured out what the truth was, I could have it. [She pulls back, blotchy faced and wet-eyed, covering her nose with shaking fingers.] And my parents could have been there. And everyone would have been...They...
[She chokes again.]
I thought there was a chance they'd just be sleeping. After all this time, maybe the curse let them sleep too. That they were just under the briars, waiting to wake up. Just like me. But it...
[Her lip twitches. More tears fall.]
I think instead of a hundred years of sleep, it was just a hundred years.