It took some hours for us both to calm down sufficiently and to put the house to rights before we fetched Bliss. As soon as Gudarro saw her, my last fears vanished. He loved her, he loved me, and he would never take that love for granted again. He never referred to Adam again. I could tell that Bliss was his daughter, the daughter he had so wholeheartedly adopted, and nothing else mattered. He rarely mentioned Blissmina again, and when he did so, it was in the blandest of terms.
He admitted how vulnerable he felt when he went to the Southernmost Isle, how it felt to go into unfamiliar territory as an outsider.
“It made me realise what it has been like for you, Kate. How alien the Woldsheart must have been to you, and how bravely and stoically you adapted to this life. At least I had hear
