Saint James Infirmary #1511: “A Negative Mirror”

[Daphne]

Script: Daphne • Line Art: Plutonian Knight • Colors and Lettering: Octavia Moon

[chipperboy1]

Whoa wait Miriam is still there? She must be split up.

[chipperboy1]

Lol just happened to botice I posted literally a minute after it was posted- dumb luck refresh lol

[Sharque]

Whoa wait Miriam is still there? She must be split up.

Not only that, but she said "one more soul," implying she thinks Erin made it out... Still don't know how she only has one, because even if she does think Erin is out, there's still Aiken AND Reka.

[Sharque]

I'll admit that, as cool as some of the animal features were, I'm glad we're starting to get the ladies looking back to normal. I share Amaltheia's relief that cunts are coming back lol.

[chipperboy1]

Whoa wait Miriam is still there? She must be split up.

Not only that, but she said "one more soul," implying she thinks Erin made it out... Still don't know how she only has one, because even if she does think Erin is out, there's still Aiken AND Reka.

Maybe because Aiken hasn’t REALLY been in the mental dreams as much, she’s considering it just Reka and she can snap Aiken out when she wakes up

[Flintnsteal]

Very tentative thought, but what if Erin is currently occupying Miriam's body and hasn't clued in? But that feels like a stretch

[GodWilling]

I'm inclined to think everyone in the bedroom is occupying Miriam's body, i.e. they haven't escaped yet. If they've arrived in the bedroom and Mallory and co. aren't there, either they're not actually in the bedroom, or they've come out in a different time, or - least likely - all the others have left the room. The first option seems the most likely to me because we've no reason to think Miriam has escaped yet, but she's there in the bedroom with them.

When Miriam first got pulled into the dreamscape, she curled up on the bedroom floor, experienced more or less the same training as Erin in the chair, had a session with the doctor much like Erin's, and joined Erin in her bedroom dream. When Erin then walked out of that dream, leaving Miriam to it, she fell into Réka's dream, and Miriam was somehow also present there. Erin again essentially let that Miriam take her place and she walked out, only to step into Jacqui's dream.

The weird bit is 1426-7, where apparently a third Miriam enters the game. I don't know where she came from, but she seems to be aware of both bedroom bunny Miriam and jewel-bearing Miriam, and describes herself as being split up, so I think she's closer to being the "real" Miriam than the others. And she's the one who got caught by Erin and Dani, and who eventually turned into a Harpy - she's the one who's still with Adrian.

The bedroom doesn't have to be any more real than the room Adrian, Amaltheia and Miriam have just emerged into. And there's a precedent for a representation of Miriam being there with them. The bedroom is much as Miriam might remember having left it.

The idea of Erin being in Miriam's body is an interesting one though, in that Erin seemed to be escaping from each dream earlier by having a Miriam take her place. I'm still inclined to think the bedroom isn't real though, in which case Erin could simply have fallen into her allotted role in the bedroom, and back under control (much as happened when she stepped into each of the other dreams), or she could be in a different dream.

Or something else.