Um, wow. This was incredible, Michele, and... I don't know what else to say. I wish I were better at giving brilliant feedback when I read an awesome fic, but I'm always just kind of dumbfounded by the time I get to the end. This was amazing.

One little tiny niggling thing -- there's something weird going on with your tenses in the scene where she has the dream about William and Marita. The dream is in present tense and the story's in past tense, I get that, but there are a couple sentences where you kind of mix them up. Unless I just misunderstood it. :)

Great story, thanks for sharing!