" Six years as Silence ended today.  The dream was seared into her mind, just as her lips had been seared shut in it. She’d delivered the nightmare to Master and by his gifts he interpreted the meaning. Contemplative Silence. She was to become that. She was to become Contemplative Silence, and she had. For six years to the day. "

― Lucian Bane , Desecrating Solomon (Desecration, #1)