So tell us more about that evolution from shame to acceptance.

This is really very common for survivors of sexual violence and for survivors of lots of forms of trauma.

In those initial moments, hours, days after an assault, survivors are trying to kind of take their own experience and understand how to describe it, conceptualize what happened.

And that can go through many, many different phases.

And the way that trauma impacts our brains can make it difficult to recall how things happened or the order in which they happened.

And that's all really normal.

Then we've also got this situation at a college, at a university where someone is maybe considered some of these perpetrators, her friends, her peers.

But just broadly speaking, how often is it that a rape happens with someone that you know?

reject him.

She has to reject him.

And, um, and she knows she breaks his heart every time that happens.

And, and then she at one point has a, um, she passes out because of a shock.

And when she wakes up, she's leaning against the beast.

And from that point on, things kind of change.

She's kind of absorbed into some of the magic.

It describes when she gets to the castle, her feet are hurting really, really badly.