Rain was a shadow of Deirdre, used by Clarissa in her attempt to steal one of the primal artifacts of Pattern. Clarissa held the young womans father captive, and forced her to do her bidding. Rain and Deirdre related well to each other, despite each one having incipient paranoia, until Deirdre was driven to her first major bout of insanity. Rain left, then, swearing never to return. She was slaughtered by Bleys for the artifact she bore, though the prince later discovered he had the wrong one.