[ her expression twists — the "habit of reviving people", as Rosalind puts it, is a source of happiness as much as it is grief, is a gift as much as it is a curse. ]

No... it isn't. [ she can't help it, the coldness that seeps into her voice like frost. ] I don't know what to feel. It is like a gift from the Gods, to have my family here, know that those who were unfairly taken from the world can be given a new life... but it means we're never free of the monsters that we thought we had left behind.