The elves here have not known immortality for generations. [Spiders Zathrian, who lives in the woods and binds nature spirits should not be counted.] Dragons are mortal beings likewise. My mother...

[She breathes away from the crystal, better not to let it come shuddering out of her.]

My mother possesses her daughters, their bodies. That is how she lives on. I had and have no intention of allowing such a fate to befall me.