"A-ahhn... It... hurts." Saige draws in a breath sharply, her fingers gently curling around her girlfriend's wrist. 

Mina giggles. "You'll get used to it, Say-say. I mean, you touch me like this all the time so it's not a big deal right?" Her hands grope at Saige's body roughly, greedily, having never been able to lay her hands on the woman like this back when they dated the first time. It feels like her prize for getting back together. 

"No... it's painful. Stop." She really wanted to just let Mina have her way, in fact she felt it was owed after having done so much on the flipside. Even so, she just can't seem to get comfortable being the centre of attention like this, it was easier when Mina wasn't into it either. It didn't make her feel guilty like this. After I told her I wanted it too, that her touch could never feel bad. I'm such a pain in the ass. 

Suddenly feeling the weight in Saige's protests from that punctuated 'stop', Mina's fingers pull away like she had touched an open flame. "Oh, I... sorry. Is it really that bad? I thought..."

Why does Mina have to be so cute even when she's upset? It makes it all the harder not to cave and let her do as she pleases. "I guess... I'm not ready yet, can we wait a little longer? Work up to it maybe? I do want to cum, I'm a horny wreck, but I can tend to myself while I eat you out. Okay?"

"That's... yeah, that's reasonable." Mina deflates. The day they got back together, she had made Saige cum without problem, they were both so absorbed in each other. Every time she's come onto her girlfriend since, they've defaulted back to their usual routine of Saige only giving while a very spoiled Mina receives. Tonight, Mina was really turned on by Saige's body, really wanted to touch it all over. She wants to respect Saige's feelings, they seem complicated and important, but she's so frustrated! It feels like she can't properly express her love for her girlfriend without giving her the same pleasure she gets almost daily from her, but if Saige doesn't even want it... what does she do with that unspent love dripping from her fingertips. 

Saige pushes Mina onto her back and starts licking, pushing those soft thighs apart with excitement. She's still into it, then? Mina turns her head to the side and blows out a short puff of air. Right now, she feels jealous of that hand between Saige's legs, almost like she's being cheated on. How unreasonable is that, she thinks with her mind not made up if she's upset with her girlfriend or herself. 

"Mina... you're so cute..." Saige moans, oblivious to the other's disappointment. 

"I wish you'd stop saying that..."

A few days later and Saige is waiting patiently with her back to a telephone pole, large round sunglasses partially obscuring the complicated expression her face presents. Half of her is excited to be going out, even if this trip is a networking haven Saige has always enjoyed this convention since before she had even gotten her degree. Back when she was a humble hypnosis hobbyist, this event was always such a blast, she had even taken Mina with her one year. Mina... the other half of Saige's encumbered thoughts are lost on how to reconcile with her needy girlfriend. While she loves Mina for respecting her boundaries since that night and wanting to accept Saige's feelings, she can also tell that it isn't enough for the girl. She knows she shouldn't necessarily feel guilty for leaving her girlfriend so unfulfilled, but when she places herself in the opposite shoes it becomes all too apparent that this arrangement cannot continue as it is. It's not that Saige doesn't want it, so they don't have to break up, but how long can she make Mina wait before their thread starts to fray?

"Hey! You're spacing out real bad, huh? Practicing some self hypnosis to show off in front of all your peers?" Saige's complicated train of thought comes to a crashing halt as Mina's voice wraps around it with silk hands. Saige suddenly looks up and her eyes widen at the display in front of her, words catching in her throat like they often seem to these days. Isn't it ironic that she chose to lean on a communication pole?

Noticing her girlfriend's newfound shyness emerging once again, no doubt bred from insecurities over the state of their one-sided sex life, Mina steps closer and takes Saige's hands in hers. "Oh no, don't tell me you hate blondes? I hope the colour wasn't tainted by a nasty no good ex or anything, I thought you'd like it..."

A spontaneous hair recolouring has Saige's mind in the blender again, trying to figure out if this is a good sign or a red flag. She doesn't think that she has ever felt so unconfident in her reading of people before, her own contorted mess of feelings seems to be getting in the way of her professional ability. "I like it. Blonde suits you, Minny. Well everything suits you..." 

"Aww, well, I had to do something. You still haven't done anything with this mess, it's making me restless Say-say." Mina holds her hand up, still wrapped around Saige's, to present her plain nails. "I mean I can get them done if you're not feeling it, I was kinda looking forward to being pampered though. It makes me scared that you're like, leaving them until you're sure we'll stay together."

This strikes a nerve, only because it could be true. Saige gives the nails a wry expression and lets go of Mina's hands. "That's unfair, it isn't fun for me either you know? I was just... making sure I don't shackle you down, in case I can't deliver. I don't want to be selfish."

Mina suddenly panics, realising her careless words had hit their mark a little too strongly. She holds onto Saige's arm and looks up at the other, trying find the right words to remove this awkwardly heavy atmosphere. "H-hey, don't say deliver like I'm waiting for my parcel to arrive. I don't think either of us are selfish, silly, but I don't know... maybe we just want different things?"

"Mina... that makes it sound like we're breaking up. We're not, right? I... I only just got you back, c'mon..." It's embarrassing Saige to sound so vulnerable, so fragile, when she's usually the cool and composed one. Her excitement over the convention is being eaten by that sombre look on her girlfriend's pretty face. 

Using her thumb to wipe the beginnings of a tear from Saige's cheek, Mina rests her head in the other's shoulder and stares down at the ground. "I don't really want to, so let's put a pin in that for now and enjoy the con, then figure out what we're gonna do when we get home? I'm sure it'll work out Saige, I love you. I wish I could love you more in a way you were comfortable with, but I don't want us to have to compromise our love."

Saige just nods, taking Mina's hand again and squeezing it tight, like she'll never let her leave. Isn't loving someone all about compromise? 

"So how many professionals like you do you reckon there'll be? You think it'll just mostly be people with an interest, like online fetishists and such?" Blonde Mina, as Saige has taken to calling her internally, hugs her arm and chats casually. It almost sets her mind at ease. The last time she had difficulty with their relation ship her first instinct was to break things off before it could hurt any more, but it's so different this time... Saige doesn't feel unloved, quite the opposite actually. Mina's love is drowning her and her body decides itself undeserving. Every time Saige moans, each and every time her sensitive spots are teased by that overflowing love she is unworthy of, Saige only hears the same stupid girl from back then... It turns her off instantly to be reminded of that time. Her first. 

"Hm? Oh, uh. Well, it isn't that kind of event but there might be some I guess. If there's anything explicitly kinky they'd be thrown out, I'm afraid." Casual conversation is her bread and butter, it plays a huge role in her career, making people comfortable through small talk like this. Except this time, Saige is using it to relax herself. 

"Awwww, you almost sound disappointed. I guess we both have pretty obvious kinks for this sorta thing, given our sex life. I'll try not to be too much of a pervert, but if you need a volunteer for a demonstration I'll be by your side the whole time." 

Saige checks her watch, they'll be arriving a little after it opens. "Actually um, we may need to split up for a while. I've arranged to meet quite a few people and it might take up quite a bit of time, so I'd rather not force you to miss half of the shows and shops."

While she wants to correct Saige and tell her that she wouldn't mind at all, that she'd rather hang off her arm all day and be close to her, Mina can sense that her girlfriend is making an excuse. Dishonesty, when she has been nothing but open and clear with her thoughts. It makes her want to bite the girl to her side, but she just barely manages to suppress the urge. Maybe Mina would just get in the way of some good networking opportunities, she considers with a dour glance at her girlfriend's face, turned away from hers. "Oh. Sure!" 

Mina only sulks in solitude for a little while before picking herself back up and deciding to enjoy her exploration with a well kept smile. It irks her to no end that Saige ditched her after they agreed to come together, first the girl won't let Mina touch her and now she can't even support her. Does Saige not want her friends and peers to see her with a girlfriend in case the relationship soon goes south? These bitter thoughts gnaw at Mina as she bites her nails in kind, she's more frustrated than she lets on. 

"That's a bad habit, want me to put some Bitrex on them?" An amused voice sounds from over Mina's shoulder as she sits by herself with an iced coffee that's now more ice than coffee. The owner of the voice, a woman who seems Saige's age, sits down next to the younger twentysomething with a confident smile. 

"O-oh uhm, haha... is that the really bitter shit? I'd wanna know why you had it on hand in the first place. I'd feel a bit like a cat being trained I guess." Mina realises how provocative those words could be to the occupants of a convention such as this, quickly pushing her lips into a thin line. 

The woman laughs it off with more of that intimidating confidence, flipping her black bangs as she turns to face the other girl while they sit. "Well, you're certainly as cute as a kitten. I do so love blondes, I hope you don't mind me saying." This overly friendly woman must have come over here to talk to her specifically, Mina realises, she also happens to be exactly her type. Tall and confident, not the most original wants, Mina is a simple girl. 

"Ah... well, uhm. That's very flattering, but I'm actually already seeing someone." Anybody could see that this woman had come to flirt with Mina, though the moment her polite rejection passes those lips she suddenly questions the assessment. How embarrassing it would be if the older girl was simply giving her a compliment. When the woman's smug, playful expression doesn't falter, Mina finds it impossible to parse if that is a good sign or a bad one. 

"You're Saige's girl, right? I was actually looking for her when I came across you sitting here like a lonely field mouse, is she in the bathroom or something? I stalk her on social media so I know your face haha, but don't worry we go way back I'm not some creepy client of hers." Mina could tell from the way she carries herself that this person is a hypnotist, she seems very persuasive already. No, tempting. Mina isn't sure what she's tempted by, but the magnetic pull creates a pit of guilt in that soft belly of hers. 

Saige's girl? Mina deflates, wondering if she can confirm the rhetorical with a straight face. No need, this woman is as confident in her assessment as she is in everything else. She's overflowing in it while Mina's own esteem is anaemic, like a covalent bond they pull together. "She's probably already where you agreed to meet. We're uh, doing our own thing at the minute. I-I actually have somewhere to be soon, anyway." Mina feels so humiliated to have been caught by one of Saige's friends like this, hoping that the woman notices how upset she looks and hounds Saige about this later. How pathetic is that, thinks Mina wryly, is their communication that bad again already? 

"Well if it's somewhere fancy, you should really tidy those nails up. I was planning on going to one of the dressing rooms first anyway, I can make them pretty for you if you'd like? I owe Saige a gift, so it's no big deal." Something about the woman's dark smile as she holds up Mina's hand makes the girl nervous, but she sees nothing wrong in agreeing to this. While she had been hoping for Saige to pamper her, she's waited long enough. 

The blonde gives a curt nod, words caught in her throat as the hypnotist strokes her fingers. She thinks with sudden, silly paranoia that this woman might be hypnotising her into coming along but then privately ridicules the thought. What an excuse, she thinks. The woman stands and Mina meekly follows, trying to match the other's confidence as she reminds herself this is nothing to feel guilty about. 

"Okay, girl. What sorta look are we going for? With a pretty blonde head of hair like that, we could go for a simple cherry red? Matte or glossy, pick your poison." It's only when the woman sits her down in the empty dressing room and begins to pamper her like this that Mina realises she never got the other's name. So mysterious, she thinks with a stupid blush. 

Her eyes scan the array of different nail polishes, feeling like a little girl being treated by doting parent. "C-can I get one with glitter?"

"Gosh, you are cute. You're the same Mina that Saige was with a few years back, right? Guess you must be serious. She used to talk about how 'unbelievably cute' her college student girlfriend was back when we kept in touch better. I guess you've graduated by now, what sorta work do you do, Mina?"

Ah, usually when she's asked a question worded like that, in such a soothing tone... it means Saige is starting an induction. Another silly thought of Mina's. "Don't laugh, but I'm actually a professional beautician. I guess I spend all my time on other people I kind of forget about myself sometimes." She stares in profound embarrassment at her messy nails as the other cleans them. 

"Oh I wouldn't say that, that blonde hair looks so soft. Like silk. Glittery red, is that what you'd like, Mina?" Again that tone, that familiar structure... is she just being paranoid. 

"Mm... yeah." Mina loves the feeling of her nails being filed, she never got any good at doing it to herself even if she's hypercompetent at tending to others'. The girl decides to relax in the foldout chair and let the raven haired woman lead the conversation. 

"I think that's perfect, then. Your skin is so soft, wow." Mina blushes as the woman files away, rounding those unkempt nails into a nice shape one at a time. From ten to one. "I said me and Saige go way back, right? I was her first, she actually started as a sub y'know? I think she got a taste for domming cause I have a tendency to make my girls take control from the bottom. It's a fun dynamic, like I'm letting them indulge in their obvious attraction to me while knowing I could switch them off like a lightbulb with one... simple... snap. What do you think about that, Mina?" The woman who Mina has taken to calling Raven in her head giggles innocently as she runs the cool nail polish over Mina's finger. 

Mina isn't sure how to respond, her interest is plain as day however. Saige's first? There's so many different interpretations, did she just mean in terms of hypnosis? This is a very specific con, people will tend to assume you know what they're talking about with such vague implications. Either way, the rest of that confession was much more concerning. Is she still flirting, or just being far too honest with her fellow hypnofetish friend... Oh god, did Saige tell her friends about their private play? Mina's cheeks go red in a mix of embarrassment and anger. 

"Hmm, you're even cute when you're upset. I always thought you sounded too good to be true, but I don't want to make you uncomfortable. How about a safe word, if you say 'Magpie' at any time, I'll simply stop talking. Don't worry, I'll finish your nails hehe. The name's Maggie, by the way." Maggie moves onto the next finger deftly, making sure to be quick but careful. 

Oh, she was close with Raven. This woman's a magpie. "I... a safe word? Are... are you hypnotising me?"

Maggie laughs, painting the next nail. "What do you think?" It's a clever question to ask, it makes it sound like she's telling Mina that she is indeed lulling the girl into trance while in reality, she's giving the other the option to accept the trance on offer guiltlessly. This girl is as suggestible as those drunken stories described, but that only goes so far. Even an excuse can only be taken advantage of by someone who secretly wants it. 

With her breathing becoming unsteady, Mina nods as she stares down at her fingernails. Two of the hypnotist's attacks have already worked their way into her bloodstream. She's grateful and relieved to have her nails done so nice and she's helplessly entranced by those tempting words of Maggie's submissives indulging themselves. Ever since she made love to Saige for the first time, rather than the inverse, Mina has been craving the next opportunity to have someone to herself like that and feel them want it just as badly. It's not fair to be rejected after giving herself so freely for so long!

"Mina, I'm just going to keep talking. I don't mind if you want to stay quiet, it's actually adorable of you to be so flustered at a silly conversation like this. I mean, we're just talking right? It isn't like my voice is pulling your focus away from those fingers, caressing your body to release all that horrible tension... it's not like you're slowly, but surely falling into my power just over a few friendly words. So it's okay to relax, because those things definitely aren't happening. So relax, Mina." 

Her entire body feels so hot as it begins to relax obediently, Mina chewing on her lip while doing as she's told. This is wrong, this is wrong, this is... so, so hot. "Y-yes, Maggie." 

"You can call me Miss Maggie if you'd like to, it's my stage name. Yeah, I went less into the healthcare field and more into showmanship. I think everyone can agree it suits me better, the Magnificent Miss Maggie. Do you think I'm a good hypnotist, Mina?"

"Yes Miss Maggie... I mean, you're doing it just like Say..." Mina can feel herself slipping already, the woman leaning down as she brings those nails up to meet her half way. As Maggie blows on her nails, Mina's eyes flutter closed for some strange reason. 

"Well that's very flattering to hear from someone so experienced in trance. You mean Saige's little technique? She nabbed that from me, so it's only fair I take something from her in return right? I did say I owed her, hehe." Maggie pulls Mina's hands up higher after blowing on them, holding her wrists. 

Mina's cheeks are burning hot, this is cathartic after her frustrating week. She wants to give in, indulge, see how far she can sink. Not just her mind, but her morals. Maybe she really isn't right for Saige after all, a bundle of cuteness obscuring a wretched reality. 

"I think it's fate that we met today, Mina. Your lust is apparent, it's such a naughty weakness. You're lucky I came along before someone dangerous exploited it. You don't want to be taken advantage of, do you Mina?" 

"No Miss Maggie." She responds mechanically, relishing in the feeling of her wrists being held together while salivating at the thought of getting this woman's body to play with if she's good. Her lust being weaponised against her isn't her fault, right?

"That's a good girl. Nice and pliant, soft and subby. As the muscles in your face relax, leaving just your mind left, your expression becomes so docile for me. That's how I like you, Mina. You're nothing but mindless fun to me, you know that right?" 

Mina nods breathlessly, her body shuddering. This is nothing like how it was with Saige, her girlfriend always so loving. Maggie's indifference is strange and exotic, she really does just want to be used and discarded. That way she can't be disappointed at the end. Yeah, maybe this is the way things should be. Dating is boorish and complicated. 

"Good toy. Now, drop for me~" Miss Maggie releases those wrists and watches gleefully as Mina's hands crash into her lap, reaching forwards to give her silky blonde head a gentle nudge to pull the girl down into deep sleep. Mina's head rolls with the hand guiding her down, letting her hair hang like one of so many demonstrations taking place in this convention centre today. Her guilt drops down with her and then further still, splashing into a pool of black void as it becomes submerged and lost. Only the blissful trance remains and the promise of uncomplicated play. 

I'm a good toy, Miss Maggie says so. I just want to have fun, what's so wrong with that? 

Maggie brings herself closer, pushing her knees between the other's as the metal edges of their chairs touch. "So deep for me now, in a familiar place I imagine. An honest place, frighteningly so. Before I relinquish my body to you for being so well behaved, I'd like to ask you a few questions. Is that okay, Mina?"

"Yes Miss Maggie..." This is Mina's first time being hypnotised by somebody other than her girlfriend, Saige, so she's surprised how familiar it feels to be down in those depths. It's her bottomless hole, the only difference is the voice that guides her down. 

"You really are special, you know. Most girls are half as cute and half as suggestible. I see why Saige is so in love. Do you love her, too?" Maggie's lips curl, the woman's nails gently tapping at Mina's knees in steady rhythm. 

"I... yes, I love... Saige. I want her so badly, all of her." Mina loves that trance lets her be honest about things her waking self is too embarrassed to speak on. Telling this to a stranger would be mortifying, but she trusts Miss Maggie. If she didn't, she would have walked away... 

The stage hypnotist snickers. "Isn't that a little greedy?" 

"I... no? No. I don't think so? Am I greedy?" Mina doesn't think she's greedy, people cannot help what they want and she made a point not to look the other way like she had with Sara, her last girlfriend. This time she told Saige straight, going as far to tell her love might just not be in the cards for them. But... wait, did that make her seem like she was giving up too early? "I don't... don't wanna compromise our love."

Another laugh, it isn't mean though. "There's a big difference between compromising something and making a compromise for the sake of something. I... aha, I know about your current turbulence already, I must confess. Sorry, I'm a terminal meddler. Still, this seems like such a simple thing that you're both blowing wayyyy out of proportion because you're bad communicators. One can only distract herself from her issues with work while the other can only speak her true feelings in trance. Actually, even saying that you should be having a breeze! Saige's work is hypnosis, you're both sitting on a mountain of luck while cursing your lack of it. So yeah, you're a bit greedy!"

"Mmph... I don't understand..." Still under, Mina furrows her brow. 

"What's something you suck at, Mina?" 

"Mm... Minigolf... I always come last." Maggie cannot help but laugh yet again, such a cute answer in this serious conversation. 

"Well, if you were making an honest effort to improve your putts but Saige kept getting fed up and moving onto the next hole without waiting for you... how would that make you feel?"

"Bad... uhm... rejected? Like my efforts were ignored."

"Mhm, well... Saige sucks at receiving pleasure. I said I was her first, but I wasn't her first in that way... maybe her second, hehe... Saige's first girlfriend was at the end of her school days, she was a very insecure person back then let me tell you. Her first girlfriend said her moans were 'off putting' and they stopped half way through their first night together. Later she even got teased for turning the girl straight with those gross sounds she made. That sort of discomfort doesn't just go away, she's the reason I got into letting subs have their way with me, she'd always use the safe word if I went for her body instead. Guess I thought she'd get over it on her own, but that ain't how a real relationship needs to go."

"Mm..."

"Be patient with her, be encouraging. I know she wants to be freed from that discomfort, Saige always denies those urges for her partner's sake in some sacrificial act but it's actually pretty selfish, isn't it?"

"I love her moans... I've been craving them, but she pushes me away. It hurts..."

"Maybe you suck at making her feel comfortable. Something that Saige will have to be patient and encouraging with as you learn. See how this works, now? It doesn't matter how loved you make her feel if you're not outwardly appreciative of how loved feel in turn. Perhaps you can find success in compromise instead of demonising it as some permanent fixture, the way you start things out doesn't have to be the way they remain forever. My advice? Try giving each other pleasure at the same time, you don't need to take turns. If you give her something to match, or if you show her how embarrassing your own throes can be, I think it could help."

"Mm... are you sure you're not a therapist?" 

Maggie giggles. "I'm going to use you like the toy you are now, Mina."

"Wh-what? I..."

The hypnotist snaps her fingers to hush the pretty plaything. "Didn't I tell you? This is just stress free, simple fun. I'll play with you just a bit, then you can make my body yours for a little while. Don't you want that? I mean, I'm going to touch you... riiiight, n--"

"M-magpie!" Mina blurts, blushing fiercely. 

The woman smiles in satisfaction, her hands had never even moved. "I thought so. Rising up now, Mina... on the count of 3, 2... aaand 1 wide awake. I hope you feel as refreshed and rejuvenated as I do, I got to hide from my financially thriving peers for a little while. I'm going to return to them now, you should come with me. Would you like that, Mina?"

The blonde bites her lip, staring down at the glittering red nails and considering her thoughts carefully. "Yes Miss Maggie... oh, ahaha... whoops. I mean, yeah... just..."

"What is it, cutie?"

"Do you have any nail polish remover?" 

When Saige's friends start waving over at the fashionably late Miss Maggie and she spots Mina tagging along shyly behind her, the hypnotherapist's thoughts go from bad to worse. She was already feeling terrible for grabbing lunch while she left her girlfriend abandoned in the wild and now her most prying pal has scooped her up. Anticipating an awkward tension sure to ruin the rest of her day, Saige isn't sure how to react at first when Mina excitedly rushes over to her and plants a longing kiss onto her cold cheek. 

"There you are! Promise to take me around with you next time, okay? It sucks being on my own, I'm useless without my girlfriend." Saige gingerly accepts Mina's lacing fingers and gives the girl a look that wordlessly asks: Should we be so open right now, when we're hanging onto one another by a fraying thread?

Mina kisses the apprehension away, looking rejuvenated. Saige can only imagine what sort of prep talk Maggie cornered her girlfriend into, giving the long time friend a grateful glance before handing her attention over to Mina at long last. "S-so, we're okay? I... I don't know if I'm going to satisfy you." She whispers, definitely not wanting her friends to hear such a humiliating confession.

"You definitely will, but I won't rush you too hard. If I didn't trust you to put in the effort, I might worry that we'd spin our wheels forever. I believe in you Saige, plus I got some really obvious but golden sex advice from your ex. Ahaha, she's exactly Sara's type... maybe we could play cupid?" Mina hangs off Saige's arm and both girls feel better for it, a true covalence. "I wanna hear you moan for me, silly, when you did it before I wasn't put off and well, Jesus knows there's no hope in me going hetero. I only fell more in love... guess when you rejected that, I got a bit upset and tried to force it. My bad, I'm not really very smart."

"I love you, Minny. You're a hell of a lot smarter than I am... I mean, the best thing I've done with my degree is get into your pants." Saige turns away from her friends as she laughs at her tears, the other girls seem keen to introduce themselves to Mina after asking about her all morning. 

"Idiot, you run a _somewhat successful business... then again I do agree, but for that alone you're a genius cause my pants are very tight. I won't let anyone else into them even if they put me under their thrall. I'm gonna put ice on your head when we get home to stop it from swelling too much." The blonde giggles and leans against Saige in a public display of affection she's known for never initiating. Maggie's right, things don't stay the same, it's just scary to put the effort in sometimes. That's why you're a couple, she thinks as she savour's her girlfriend's scent openly, so you can lean on each other. "Love you too, Say-Say." 

"When we get home... yeah." Saige is blushing more than she usually feels comfortable with, so many eyes on her witnessing that enjoyment. Why did she ever care? 

Mina nods, wanting to run her hands all over Saige right here and now. "When we get home, let's make love to each other..." She motions a pair of scissors with her fingers with a beaming smile, some of Saige's friends coughing as Mina realises she wasn't being as subtle as she thought. 

Saige nods bashfully, the table cheering dramatically to tease her. Things go smoothly after that, Mina brought into their circle of niche interest rather splendidly given her own experience and dare she boast... talent? Maggie throws an arm around Saige and over exaggerates her story of hypnotising Mina into repairing their fraying relationship and she reluctantly thanks the nosy bitch, having to concede this once. As if by some miracle, the girls have a great day together.

Neither could have seen it coming when they woke up that morning. 

See, isn't that a happy ending to a dour tale?

Yes Miss Maggie.