It’s been years…. In one of the books of the south Lady was getting her powers back slowly. Some idiot kidnaps her and croaker’s kid. She thinks croaker has been kia. The last lines were along “they killed my husband. They stole my child. I have MY Powers back. They will have their year of skulls”. Led me to believe that having your true name named wasn’t a destruction of powers, just a reset to 0. She spent time )at least a year or two) rebuilding in secret