After hesitating, Yorda nodded. She didn't know what Ansem truly wanted with her, or why he was asking so many questions about her abilities; no one had ever done that before, and though it occurred to her that he had a darker purpose (why else would he have kidnapped her?), the princess couldn't fathom why, not yet. She both wanted to know and dreaded the answers she would almost certainly receive regarding her situation.

"All that I am, I received from my mother." But the Queen wasn't made of light at all.