Remember that this happened every ninety years? Whenever the recurrence started, Minerva would show up, and at the end of the cycle Ananke would die and she'd take over with all Ananke's memories. And they were siphoning off us- do you remember anything about severed heads? Did you ever know about this? Turns out we could still live as severed fucking heads. And...that's what they'd get power from.

[ ...Those are words she just said. ]

Look, my- my point is she was using us to live forever. And she didn't care who fucking died when she did it. We never had to die.