Ankyra Sound Glow

Dead. Their mother was dead. The words stabbed Morgra's heart like a knife. All this time she had been gone and now—How long? was all she could manage at first. She wasn't even sure why it mattered. But it did. 

Ptolemy was correct; she did live on in them. And they had little siblings who carried her on. But The Listener sold them before succumbing to an illness. Her brother promised they would get them back, and she believed him. Already she wanted them home where they belonged. One was already there. The Hierophant. "I want to meet him," she said after a moment. Her little brother with the Listener's blood running through his veins. And I want to see Pelagius.

The girls were tainted, but Ptolemy was correct again: they needed them. They needed a new Listener. Morgra nodded when he asked if she had been called home. I had a dream...it was the first time I had seen her and I knew I needed to return home. And there was work to be done. What was Ingram's betrayal? she asked. it mattered too.