" The last time they’d been on a secret mission together, there had been a body count. They didn’t talk about it, at least not with each other, but the specters of Cordé, Versé, and the others had loomed large in their minds. The demons would never be fully exorcized. They would always wonder what they could have done differently, how they might have saved their friends. "

― E.K. Johnston , Queen's Hope