Hearing the Mother speak through Rita is like claws on a chalkboard, but Ignatius stays focused on his inexplicable twin, anyway. It's a bit too familiar, after Shabon.

"...If she's really... If she's really my faeblood now, then I should have more control over her than the Mother does," Ignatius says. He's not speaking from experience - he's never had a faeblood before. Yet, that unique connection should be far stronger than any kind of 'technology' the Mother could muster.