Adra is the last of her sisters. Padma left their mother's business shortly after Rue fell to the scars. The last one in the nest, Adra isn't sure what she wants in life. It feels as if she can't leave--not when it's only her left, her mother's business would fail should she take the plunge. And the work isn't bad--she's been telling herself that her whole life, so now it's the truth. It isn't bad.

They take the negative emotions from their clients, and store them along their bodies, and Adra thinks very little of the cost until she sees a figure draped in black, a figure only she can see.