“After entrusting him to a close friend, I went in search of answers. I learned that Guin had killed his father. I was so enraged that I attacked her. I was still young, and my emotions made me sloppy. She overcame me with little effort and had the Erlking Alberich escort me to the Wilds to be exiled. Somehow, she erected wards around her lands specific to me alone, keeping me from re-entering. I couldn’t get back to my child nor get to the cauldron to heal him. I’ve been searching for a way back to him ever since. Merlin had supported Guin in my banishment. Between that unfathomable betrayal and his staunch belief as a Seer that there is a natural order in life that should not be disrupted, it was clear he wouldn’t help me. I considered telling him the truth about what had happened, but h
