Status Updates From The Night Before the Wedding

escaping carriage stops on bridge, Catherine gets out, 6 yr old next bride runs and hugs her, they get hit by the carriage door, railing breaks and they go over the edge. Catherine pulled to safety and Gabriel dives in to save girl. he revives her and breaks curse. Catherine loves him and breaks betrothal so he can be with previous woman. He goes after her and brings her back.

Her maid and her previously unknown grandfather help her escape to Scotland where she is greeted by the entire clan with open arms and sees the poverty and results of the curse. She comes to feel at home and realizes that she wants to chose this. She takes vows with Gabriel and will formally wed the next day. Then her father tries to snatch her.

Gabriel came to her room in the night and proposed. He will return the following night for her answer. That morning, she wakens only speaking Gaelic and can't meet her suitor's mother. Her father locks her up and is trying to see how to get her married before the madness is too severe like her mothers.

Catherine is dreaming of the curse and seeing Gabriel in her dreams. The she starts to hear the voices chanting the curse during the day. The story starts 5 days after her 18th birthday. When she sees him in the ballroom, she immediately assumes that it is a figment of her mind and tries to avoid him so she does not appear mad. After she is properly introduced, she is still pursuing the man she chose.

Oh thank god someone thought to send a dress with her, I'm over heroines being dragged all over and not given basic things like clothing

I like Catherine's thinking.

The strain of maintaining some semblance of normality was beginning to wear on her. How much more peaceful it would have been to stay at home with a book, rather than come here to be on display for the Polite World.

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