[id: new scene, indoors, night. a narration box in the form of an ancient scroll informs us in the font “old english text MT” that this is “a few turns of ye hourglass later”. janet and selena are seated at a crudely fashioned wooden table in chairs of a similar plain and rustic look, before a roaring fire in a fireplace in a room with wooden floors and walls of stucco discolored with age. the two young women are now dressed in simple homespun shifts that may have once been white, and they are eating what may be cereal or porridge from plain white bowls. janet, glancing up from her bowl at someone offscreen says, “thank you for clothing and feeding us, maeve!” /end id]
