What the Hollow Mother Offered

Aurenel has spent two hundred thousand years watching the Garden bleed.
When she enters the village of Hasmerren, she expects another survey, another brief descent into the lives of mortals who will be gone long before she remembers their names.
Instead, she finds two Voskyn waiting for her.
They call her sister.
They remember things she has forgotten.
And they offer her something no one in High Heaven ever could:
companionship.
But while Aurenel speaks with the Hollow Mother, Ilyaveril walks among the villagers-and discovers what the Voskyn have been breeding beneath the guise of worship.
Some offers are made to be refused.
Others are made because the one offering them knows exactly what you have lost.