Inhale. Exhale. She folds her hands together to stop herself from twisting them.

"My perception of reality began to blur from the moment we crossed the threshold of Drearburh Castle," she says. "I did not realize until then just how fraught the Ninth was with memories of my loss... how much of my time I spent there in deepest distress."

"It was in those times that she of the Tomb would come to me, offering comfort. And so it was as we descended to the Tomb that day, and she began to speak to me."