After learning some forbidden magic, Glimmer couldn't resist trying to bring her mother back somehow; what she brought back was just a piece of her, her emotional escense. She can't speak and only understand things through an emotional lens, and even though she is painfully aware of the anger and sadness Glimmer is going through, she's incapable understand what's going on or even talking to her...
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