Alliance of the Broken

Heila and Ashlynn had to remind themselves on more than one occasion to continue eating as Captain Lennart and Virve narrated the intense battle to capture the Tangled Tower. While neither of them had been present for the confrontation between Nyrielle and High Lord Hamdi, Inquisitor Ignatious had been very forthcoming with Nyrielle's inner circle of loyal soldiers and servants from the Vale of Mists about what happened. 

"I'm still struggling with this bit," Ashlynn said at one point during the narration. "Lady Nyrielle took an Inquisitor as one of her progeny and he's been living in exile this whole time?" 

She knew, intellectually at least, that Nyrielle had been at her coldest and most cruel in the years following the death of her parents but she never imagined that Nyrielle would take a member of the Inquisition as one of her progeny, just to inflict immortal suffering on him as retribution for what he had done to one of her first forty-seven progeny.