Days have equally passed in the Capulet House. Since news of Montague's death, all have been quiet. The streets of Verona have remained as they were when the fighting ceased. Citizens fearfully dart to and fro like mice. The members of both Houses glance at each other like either are ghosts, spirits to haunt their now pointless feud.
Juliet has been plagued with the mourning of her father-in-law but also the pain she extends to her love for now having to take on his House. Then about Tybalt. Her cousin has been keeping to himself, pegged in his chambers and wandering alone in the nights. The physicians believe it to be the sleeping sickness, something that prevents the one infected from sleeping. His eyes remain open and his body moves almost on its own. One physician explained it like a prisoner in a prison of his own body. The inflicted cannot sleep for the mind is haunting the soul on something. In most cases, until the inflicted figures out what the pain is or they die, the sickness will not leave them.
Now fearful for her cousin, Juliet watches him every night as he leaves the estate and waits for him to return. She occasionally doses off in the nights but wakes early in the mornings to make sure he has returned. Many a times she has approached him, questioning him in why he does not sleep. Why does he walk alone? "Thou knowst thou canst walk beside me," she adds, pegging him with her soulful eyes. Tybalt merely shakes his knowing head and smiles at her a fake smile. "No need, child. Given the choice between the experience of pain or nothing, I would chose pain."
Juliet is lost in her longing to understand.
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