Episode Twelve: Asterion

In which our protagonists remember their history. Featuring: a bad dream, a strange reality, a mythology lesson, a horticultural intrusion, a cryptic clue, a promise.

Episode description: Anna realises that labyrinths have many different kinds of monsters.

Episode Overview
Anna has a nightmare, reads Mabel a story, and finds a strange tale.

Trigger Warnings

 * Parent death, disappearances, nightmares, PTSD, alcohol (mentioned).

Episode Summary
Anna wakes up after a nightmare and talks to Mabel about it. In the morning, she tells Mabel the story of Ariadne and then finds a newspaper discussing Lily Martin's death. She then opens one of the Letters; it reads "you promised." She realizes Sally broke her promise to Luna when they were young, and then turns it around to promise Mabel she wouldn't leave her alone in the Hill.

Continuity
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 * Sally is the one who says "I looked and looked but never found you," a reoccurring line in the show.
 * "Just keep walking" is an important line from Anna to Mabel; from Orpheus, that is, to Eurydice.

Trivia
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 * "Monsters are never only one thing...I think that’s why – that’s why they’re monstrous, because they move between worlds." can obviously link to "I am the labyrinth, Anna, and I am also the Minotaur." Mabel, the world-hopper, is the monster.
 * Lily disappeared on April 3rd, 1990. Mabel was very young.
 * Anna believed that Sally was kind. She was wrong, of course, but it's still startling to hear it.
 * Asterion is believed by some to be the name of the Minotaur. The term "Minotaur" literally just means "Mino's Bull."