A year lasts but a month, so't seems to go
And when I ask why, they say it's just so
Is there not a medic, priest, or herbalist
Who'll cure my vertigo?
When Princess Eos of the royal house of Bellvale was christened, the king and queen invited Lady Lore of the Fae Lands-a friend of the royal family under a false name-to sponsor their child in her spiritual journey. However, unbeknownst to the Bellvales, Lady Lore's regency had just ended, along with many of her pretenses. The Fairy Queen of Sweet Dreams, offended by the Bellvales' invitation of Lore as opposed to her, threatened to make Eos an orphan, and heir to an accursed land. However, Lore was able to negotiate on the family's behalf, and instead, Eos was to sleep for a century when she came of age, and awake displaced within time and space and forced to reckon with the new way of things, much as the Fairy Queen was. So, when Eos reached puberty, not only did her body undergo the usual changes in preparation for adulthood, but it also prepared itself for that freezing and shifting of time that it was destined for, the most noticeable symptom of which was a dizzying sense of fleeting time, which human healers could only incorrectly diagnose as vertigo.











