"A shattered mind," Theiorn said softly from behind them.

She nodded, staring off into nothingness. "The inner web is our power. The Chalice is the rest of what we are, our mind. For a Black Widow, it is said to be perhaps less bad than for others, and perhaps worse. Both because we can step across the boarder of the Twisted Kingdom. But when the chalice is shattered, that ability is gone, and you are trapped in the madness. Seeing the world both as it is, and as it isn't at the same time, unable to differentiate."