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Lian.

Why. Why? You've always been -- you've ...

Did I not teach you?! Did I not make sure that you knew how to treat others, how to be honest and truthful and good? Do you not understand that what you did was so underhanded, so wrong, so ... so ... -- why?

Kyrene ...

Oh, Kyrene, why aren't you here? Why aren't you hear to make this all make sense? She's so much like you, she's everything you ever were. You'd understand, you'd be able to make sense of this. You'd have some explanation ... ... or. Or, you'd know what to say to her. You'd know how to make her listen, and stop being this, this awful, horrible little ...

... did you ever lie to me, Kyrene? Did you? Were you deceitful and manipulative and cruel just like your daughter? How many things were there that you told me that were untruths? How ...

I always ...

I always thought that Linnell was petty and dishonest. I always thought that Lissandra had not enough empathy and too much hardness. But Lian ... what she's done is so much worse than anything either of them have ever managed.

-- Edeyn is right. Edeyn is right, she must be punished. She must learn, and ... and ...

Dragons. Dragons, the girl ... my girl ... is she just gone, like that? Was she ...

Was she ever really there?