Blackfeather Woods does the lighthouse shine to seek, or to be found?

iva approached, appreciative of relmyna's task; the delta swept a delighted tongue across her jaws, but her joy faded as a whine splintered glasslike from the other's throat. iva could not settle; they collided lightly as the blindwoman paced, and her scarred counterpart scented the pain lurking in blades beneath the ragged hide, and knew iva's tribulation had come.
instinctively, relmyna understood that her companion could not be moved; she had no sense of trained midwifery, but 
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she had brought forth her own children. the aspirant came 'round, steadying her shoulder against that of iva, intending to guide her into a turn that would bring the labouring woman to the depression in the earth. i will stay with you, came relmyna's fierce thought, a prayer to sithis that somehow it would penetrate iva's pained psyche and give her succor.