August was sitting in the room where her mother had been taken after she fainted. She was still out. It was so strange having her here—surreal even. She hadn't seen her mother for so long, and now here she was… an elder herself.
All August could think about was how her mother had been before… the wife of a controlling, abusive husband. Someone who had all of her personal power taken away from her. And now she was here, and she was an alyko. She was incredibly powerful and wise, and how had that happened? Because of Eliade?
It was hard to imagine that the place that August had demonized in her thoughts as being an enemy and terribly immoral and wrong could be the force behind good developments like this. It was only because of Eliade that she had been out in Suicide Forest herself when Graeme found her. And now it was because of Eliade that her mother was almost unrecognizable in the amount of divine energy she had seemed to find within herself.
