Phaedra lay still for some minutes, and the room fell deathly quiet. Her hand lay still, unmoving, like that of a dead person, which is really what she was. At last she spoke again.
"There is no new life for the dead, only the coldness between the stars. I had no friends in life, and now my mind is odd. It is not yet my own. Things will go badly."
She fell quiet again. The woman had offered her her home as a place to stay, and Phaedra found this profoundly touching even though she had no way of forcing Phaedra to move. She was little more now than a wisp of soulmist, and a human hand could not touch her.
"I must find Berlin Cloudsong. Our business is unfinished. No more will I possess your body."