A month could feel both long and short.
Long enough for someone to shift their focus onto other aspects of life;
short enough that they might not complete what they started.

During this time, the sisters spent noticeably more time together.
She no longer trained late at night or buried herself in the library all day.
Instead, she played ghost-hunting games with Moon,
pulled harmless pranks with Aurora,
accompanied Muse on the piano,
and told heroic tales of dragons to Hefei.

No one knew what would happen a month later, so while everything …