Quotes from Grace Draven, Eidolon

My dear, treacherous mother, " he breathed. "What have you done?

I will stand beside you through all of this, ' she said when she could finally speak. "And welcome you home with gladness when it's over, and you return triumphant.

Wouldn't it have been better to conserve your strength and rest?" Ildiko mused after a moment. "I'll sleep long and hard when I'm dead. You defy death by celebrating life.

I've always been under the assumption that death is a one-time, encompassing event." "Why would you ever think that?