For three months, she had sung to the darkness and the flame, and they had sung back. For three months, she had burrowed so deep inside her power that she had plundered undiscovered depths. While Maeve and Cairn had worked on her, she had delved. Never letting them know what she mined, what she gathered to her, day by day by day. A death blow. One to wipe a dark queen from the earth forever.
