Cadence's statement should have perhaps worried me more than it did. Instead, her accusation she'd seen my former mother in my own realm and I knew nothing about it actually made me want to laugh.

Cadence, I sent as comfortingly as possible, knowing, like the rest of us, my sister in Life was seeing boogeymen where none existed. I could hardly blame her for that. There is absolutely no way, under any circumstances, that Isis could enter the Mist realm without me ...