Ankyra Sound Glow

His grin faded under her concern, and Ptolemy turned somber. Pelagius now, He said first, and continued more quietly, Mother is gone. Dead.

But she lives in us - and in her heirs, His eyes brightened as he went on, twin green flames in the night. Four children. Hierophant, Saint, Accipitra, and Anathema. The Listener fell to some illness at the end - she sold them, Pel says, but we'll get them back. We already have the boy, The Hierophant.

Ptolemy paused. The girls, they're... tainted. Ingram's betrayal, mother believed, but we need them anyway. We need a new Listener, He drew in a breath to steady himself, unsettled by the necessity of their discussion. Mother had always seemed eternal; infinite. But in a way, she was. She would live again in the vessel of her choosing. Did she call you home, too?