She’s still alive - an eccentric ex-scolar. You find people like that on the fringes of scholarship - genuinely brilliant, sometimes - but cracked, you know, possessed by some crazy idea that has no basis in reality, but which seems to them to hold the key to understanding the whole cosmos. I’ve seen it more than once - tragic, really.
- Master Mandrag about Auri (with Elodin rolling his eyes in the distance)












