hornet recognizing the song used to keep gms in her eternal paranormal slumber bc its the same one her mother and aunts would use to lull her to sleep is this anything
What if it was only her aunts that used it? Testing how the song works on the half-god daughter in comparison to how it did on their goddess mother?
They wanted to shape and control Hornet in accordance with their own desires and goals. They wanted her powerful but still theirs to direct. So maybe they sung that lullaby a little differently each time, noting in what ways it calmed her and how fast she fell asleep. To ensure that if she ever went against them she would fail.
It’d be a sobering thing to look back at for Hornet. Memories that once were fondly held turned sour after the things she learned in Pharloom recontextualized them.
oH! if her aunts realized she really IS part Pale through the lullaby... if that made them fear her...
if they sang it all their few children (parents of the weavers in quarter who the Citadel hunts down, grandparents of the weavers in eighth who are taken back to Pharloom by force) hoping the song might someday protect them (it didn't) but if when Herrah's child first hears it, she sleeps, as Grand Mother Silk once did-
"prove yourself more weaver than wyrm" prove yourself more mortal bug than divine, prove you won't be another god waiting to ensnare us
Hornet being saved from Dreaming and infection for all those ages, after a childhood of learning to resist the pull of sleep from her aunts' song. to prove herself to them as more than Pale power and instinct
(weaver queen ending Hornet, and the irony of it all)
