Hill could make out some of Edna's little schemes. She really did regard herself as the future mayor of Hidden Town at all times.
She most likely intended to leave the town to Edna, rather than Mystra.
Yet she clearly had no intention of inheriting Midnight's name... Besides, Midnight had no holy site of her own. Hadn't all those holy sites of Mystra in places like Halruaa come from Black Eye?
If they were talking about something belonging to Midnight herself, there was really only one small monastery, built by her former companion Aiton, a former priest of Sharess who was now doing good deeds somewhere in the lands of chaos. He alone sincerely worshipped Midnight Mystra.
Unfortunately, that sprang from the friendship of a former comrade. Even if Aiton had been Midnight's first priest, the difference between that little sanctuary and a true holy site of Mystra was obvious.
Edna probably wanted to cut ties with everything from the past... She could inherit Mystra's name, but she likely intended to set aside all of Mystra's troublesome subordinates and leave them alone for now.
Then she would establish a new holy site of her own and find people among its followers whom she could entrust with important duties—priests who truly belonged to her.
Edna was far more strong-willed than Midnight... If Midnight hadn't taken over Black Eye's entire legacy at the outset to keep the Goddess of Magic's followers on Toril from falling apart after Black Eye's inexplicable murder, many things would never have become so difficult.
That was Midnight's greatest predicament... Every day since then, she had been repaying the debt incurred by the love she had scattered so freely when she took over as the Goddess of Magic.
Yet she lacked the strength of character and endurance to