The sun gave the moon its radiance. Without its fiery light, the moon is dark and empty.

When he had disappeared, she stopped living. She continued to exist, but not to live.

With it came a revelation: she had relied completely on him. Her world had evolved around her brother. She couldn't care less that she had won, that the Elders had lost, that Dee, Machiavelli and all the other villains had met their come-uppance. Because Josh was gone.

She could not. No matter how much she wanted it, no matter how much she wanted to see him again, to be together once more, she could not. She was immortal, he was Death.

For centuries after, Sophie Newman was known as a ruthless assassin, feared by Immortals and mortals alike. Not even the legendary Scathach could stand against her. And the irony! To think that this fearsome warrior had once been a hero.

Funny, how one person had caused the death of a million others.

For the sun gave the moon its radiance. Without its fiery light, the moon is dark and empty.

So Sophie Newman vanished from existence.