Madeline felt a breeze pass by her. She turned around and saw her mother standing in front of Astrate. "Are you here to taunt me?" Marina asked.
Astrate's lips pulled up into a smile,
"Come back, Marina. The living world is not for you, not once the angel finds what you are carrying in your stomach."
Marina took a protective stance, and she raised her hand in front of her, "My child is part of the living world. Leave my child alone."
"Darian sent you to turn the angels against each other, but what did you do instead? The last time I met you, I should have known that you had changed and had turned disloyal to us demons. That's what the world of the living does to one, isn't it? What do you see in him, Mari? Have you forgotten what we have gone through?" asked Astrate, pulling out a wooden staff in her hand from thin air.
