"Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness."
--James Thurber
Abbess Io was broken, her sanity snapped. After all, she is but a 15 year old woman, trapped as a child for 50 years. She is the Chosen One, she is 'this', she is 'that'...Too much, perhaps, for her, and she lost her mind, reverting back to childhood. This, I assumed, would have ended any alliance I might have had with the abbey, although it looks now to be different. A day or two after her mind slipped, I returned to the abbey, to find her with her arm linked to that of Ezekiel, in his human form. She was estatic, a true affection for him showing...When he left, she snapped...whether on purpose or accidentally, she sent the abbey up in flames.
It took some time, but Lace and I have managed to get her to a much less anxious state. I believe she is still in her childhood, but at least the stages of hysteria are somewhat abated.