With a fresh mind and searching eyes, the Scheme-Mother-Reborn returned to her throne world, which, without the edge of sword logic, had become a shell of itself. Here, she strolled the parapets and fell deep into contemplation. Although she could remember nothing, her mind was as sharp as a tooth. When she emerged from her contemplation, the Whisper-Queen addressed her brood. She said: My children, I know the truth, and out of my love for you, I will share it. Before them, she killed her most trusted witch in a transcendent blaze of Light. This witch became the first of the Lucent, the first resurrected in the image of the queen herself. —An excerpt from "The Books of Rememoration, A Story Sewn into Flesh with Sinew and Malice, A Record of the Scheme-Mother's Resurrection and Return"