Annabelle had tuned out everything after she began inscribing. She felt so much better than she had in the last millennia let alone since Lind returned.
She had been happy he was alive. She admitted that to herself. His dying saving everyone was what she feared even when her heart was broken. She hated what he had done but did not want him to die.
The closure of rejecting him helped as well. It made her take a long hard look at herself and what she wanted. She loved her family but things could not go back as they once were.
Nothing could make that happen.
When her Sisters and children and grandchildren came to help her, she realized she had isolated far too much. She was not meant to be alone!
She did not want to replace Lind, nor find a partner at all. She was content to simply be herself for now.
