Yorda nodded. "Very well. I will not," she told her with a smile of her own. For all the terrible things her mother had done, she was still her mother, and Yorda had loved her nonetheless. She hoped the woman had found peace in death, even if it made her a little sad, and that the children she had turned into shadows were happy again.

"I do not know," Yorda replied. "She has never done this before, I think; I do not know." She looked over at Neirenn. "Why would it take a lot of strength? Mother would have been able to do this easily."