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Quote #10
He couldn't cure her. Even as she clung to life, Cassandra understood that. Her body was failing. At intervals, her old nightmares returned to mock her. She cowered inside a ring of flames: scarlet and yellow and green and blue. She screamed and thrashed with terror until the doctor came and held her, murmuring nonsense, as if she were a sick child. (51.3)
Now that the phoenix-stone has been destroyed, Cassandra knows that life is leaving her. She still dreams about the stone, but she knows that she won't die in a fire like she feared. She'll die of old age and sickness, just like a normal woman.