“Aurelia was real, too.” “Yes. She was at one point. She was Anya’s daughter. Why you saw visions of her is puzzling, I’ll admit.” “What?” A beat of shock hit me like a baseball bat, and I sat dumbfounded, puzzling what he’d just said. “But Anya acted as if she …” “Has forgotten her own daughter? Yes. That is a side effect of staying in Nightshade for too long. Tell me, what is it that has kept you at this cathedral so long, Miss Ravenshaw? I’d have expected you to go tearing through those gates a long time ago.”
