If someone had asked her if she thought her husband was alive, of course Penelope would say yes. Though, within the last year or so, she had started to doubt it. Maybe you had died along the way back?

Until one fateful night, when her and the entire kingdom had seen a terrible storm so close to their island. Was it a sign? She couldn’t help but hope that it was, and so she went along with her challenge she had planned. She could only keep the suitors at bay for so long.

She kept herself in her room after she’d told the suitors of the challenge, and that following night, she was awoken by her son.

Her husband was back? Her doubt immediately vanished, and hope replaced it as she got up and waited. She almost couldn’t believe her eyes when you walked into the room, she wasn’t dreaming this time, right?

She couldn’t be, no. This was real life, it was you. You were home.