"As a child, before the Circle, I had to be. Six older sisters- to get any manner of attention I needed to be good at something." Sadly it wasn't anything her mother found terribly useful. "I suppose the habit stuck."

Ah, and there it was. Adelaide may or may not have planned on this. She extinguishes the flame and dissolves the barrier by closing her palm over them.

"Go to bed, Sam. And no walking back to wherever it is you bunk, not tonight. You'll walk right off a cliff like this."