She has finally tapped into her abilities. I must say...I am impressed."
Mariah emptied her goblet by gobbling it's last contents. She had ordered wine from the palace cellar after putting two and two together from what she had observed in her vision ball. There was no doubt that her niece was powerful. Deeming from the limp position of her now useless henchman, her niece had performed the 'screaming banshee'. She had clearly done so accidentally yet the destruction that she had caused had been immense.
Mariah smacked her lips in satisfaction, enjoying the wine that was coursing down her throat. Very soon the blood moon would appear, adorning the earth with its maleficence. It is only then that she could perform the ceremony, the ceremony to harvest power. She needed to locate Lyra
