Some have lived longer than I, that's a fact--I am but a child compared to them. But whether they possess the same level of control that you and I do, I am uncertain.

[she'd like to believe it to be so, but there are those in their number that if a sigil was to control them, rather than vice versa...

it might be a gift for those in the hazy area of what constitutes divinity, that they could endure that unearthly pain and hide such power in the shadows of their shard. or it might be a foolish, foolish idea she will regret ever making later when the time comes to see what it will have done to them unknowingly.

so much unknown. so much to guess at. the Outsider might have peace with that, but she does not.]