(OOC: Feeling a little expository, and then dug up the RAW on Carmine. This came out...)
Viscaria pauses before getting on the boat, just long enough to grab several chunks of rock from the side of the mountain (call it "several" Arcane Connections).
Once on the boat, she makes sure that Carmine is resting comfortably, and falls asleep tending to the woman.
Viscaria dreams....
A horde of undead approach the strange city she calls her home. Safe behind a writhing mass of green and purple tendrils, she watches the unceasing battle. An enemy somehow breaks through the defensive line, and Viscaria tears a thin strip of her Self off her arm, and flings it at foe. The strip of flesh becomes an arrow made of gleaming silver, and strikes true. It does little to damage the foe, but the attack brings the attention of the inhuman army at her command, and the foul undead thing is caught up by tentacles and consumed.
She sees another enemy break through, rips off another part of her Self, and fires again. And again. Each attack costs her some part of herself that is not truly her Self, but is woven into the very fabric of her being.
Viscaria tears herself apart defending her home, and does so gladly.
"Mother," she whispers. "Where are you, Mother? Who are you?"
She turns away from the battle, and sees Carmine standing before her. Carmine embraces her, and pours herself into Viscaria's wounds, filling them with molten silver.
Her body gleams silver in the first rays of dawn, and she feels an unnatural peace settle within her body. Unnatural and yet so very right, she feels....human. Human, in a way that she has not felt since before her apprenticeship began.
She dreams of memories not her own. She dreams of being Carmine. Of hugging her children tight to her breast, as a dull empty place within her struggles against such embraces. No one has ever hugged her like this!
Grandchildren listening to stories told before a fire. Tiny hands held in hers as they walk down marble hallways. Tiny, silver hands, grasping hers.
Tiny silver hands, reaching for her, reaching into her, struggling against a sea made of blood and flesh and bone. Fighting not to drown, not to die out. A part of her which is not her claws her way into herself, burrows deeper, pouring itself through her silver body in molten veins.
"Don't let me drown. Help me, Mother!"
Weak, exhausted, yet rejuvenated and full of natural human vitality, some part of her is suffocating under the weight of her humanity.
Confused, she turns in search of her True Love, and finds him there, reaching out to her. His eyes gleam silver in the firelight, and they embrace, passionate. They kiss, and her love pours his Self into her mouth, turning liquid silver and she begins to choke, to gag.
Somewhere beyond the iron bars, her pater hisses, [color=grey]"Yes, good! Eat it, child! Eat it!"
She is drowning in love, drowning in the union of two souls. One part of her can finally breath easy, and another part is suffocating, being buried alive by the memories of someone else's life.
Falling, falling deep within herself...
Only to land safely upon a spider's web. The web turns silver around her, silken strands turned to molten metal, an intricate network connecting every part of her Self to herself.
Viscaria sits up and sees the flat plane of the spider web reaching out into the lonely void, and suddenly she can breathe again. "Mother!" she cries out.
"Why did you leave me? Mother!"
"Mother!" she cries aloud, suddenly waking aboard the ship.