"My love, what time are you waking up?" Steps poured into the room, and a familiar voice inquired.
'Yes! It was all just a dream. It's about to dawn on me that this was all a dream,' While trying to open her eyes, Judith consoled herself.
She felt as if someone had thrown pepper into her eyes due to the lights' excessive brightness, which irritated them.
Someone dimmed the lights, leaving the nightstands on, after she muttered, "Too bright."
When they realized she had said her first words, the room immediately erupted in tears and happy shouting.
Even though Judith kept telling herself that everything she had seen was just a dream, she nevertheless woke up feeling physically frightened and with her heart beating a little quicker.
She sobbed deranged as she took her cousin closer and hugged her as she broke down in tears.
Serena handed her a tissue to clean her runny nose after noticing it.
She jumped out of bed a minute later after feeling sick in her stomach. Her weak legs nearly brought her to her knees. She got to get to the restroom with some help from Serena.
Serena had been surprisingly helpful.
She held her back to the bed and said, "You've been out for several weeks.
'Weeks?' Now it made sense to her. All she saw was not a dream.
Serena promised, "After you have recovered your strength, we would tell you everything," but her mind was already elsewhere.
It was as though her brain had stopped working- during the period, she was numb and thoughtless, and now that it appeared to be operating, thoughts were pouring into her head.
'Explain more...Wait, there's more, what?'
She turned toward her cousin, severely snapping her head, and then turned away. Then it struck her once more that her cousin was aware of who her husband was.
She began to remember and understand everything.
The blood. The abrupt departures. The strong presence Judith's husband exuded. Absolutely everything.
Questions? No, she didn't have any because she was still holding onto her denial. At the same time, she questioned how her cousin learned such information about her husband.
She shared a bed with a mons-with a legendary entity, in the same dwelling. Without knowing, she had loved Mark all her life.
She started crying again and again.
'Weak'
The same voice that had pushed her to flee the day the incident took place resounded in her head.
She nevertheless kept an eye on her cousin's lips to determine whether she was the one who had spoken, but she wasn't.
At one point, she buried her head in her hands.
"I'm losing my mind," She told Serena, "I'm hearing voices in my head now," and she received a pat on the back in return. Serena then drew her into an embrace.
Judith thought she was losing her mind, while Serena saw it as her wolf awakening after a long nap.