Her sister's words were heard by Olivia as continued to sob, but it took several long seconds for it to register. She turned her face towards Pearl, her cheeks puffy and slick with tears.

"Dead?" she questioned. had she heard that right? In her quietest moments, awake in the middle of the night, she had wished Magnus dead at times. There had been a brutal side to him, she had seen it. But she hadn't thought he would actually die. The bitter and evil ones usually lived to die in their own beds.

"How? When?" Olivia asked softly.