Location: Training Clearing / Kaela's Cottage, Thornhaven Village
Date/Time: 16 Ashwhisper, 9938 AZI
Realm: Mid Realm
Lyria told them about the babies.
She sat on the moss where she'd nearly died, wrapped in a blanket someone had brought from the cottage — she didn't know who, didn't care — and she told them everything. The white rooms. The cribs. The women in masks carrying trays of gold-green vials. The convulsions. The drainage tables. The grinding stones and the pills pressed from powder that had once been children.
She told it in the flat, dissociated voice of someone reciting facts about another person's life. As if describing it from a distance could keep it from touching her. It couldn't. Her hands shook the entire time, and Voresh's presence at her back — human again, fully human, though she could still feel the ghost-impression of copper wings — was the only reason she got through it.
