As I have said, I must start at the beginning. [He runs a hand through his hair, before tucking a lock behind an ear.]
Did you notice? How Mother and I do not resemble one another. [After all, she had red hair and a long face, but Ithaqua is silver-blond with a round face, thinned from work and exertion.]
She found me in the forest in the dead of winter, and that is where she raised me.
But did you know? If a child was abandoned, then there must have been someone to abandon them. [And this is where they're headed.] That family had two sons that night, but one had been born dead, so they sought to be rid of it. How convenient, then, that the neighbouring forest was not inaccessible, and that the blizzards would eventually bury the body, never to be seen again?
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Did you notice? How Mother and I do not resemble one another. [After all, she had red hair and a long face, but Ithaqua is silver-blond with a round face, thinned from work and exertion.]
She found me in the forest in the dead of winter, and that is where she raised me.
But did you know? If a child was abandoned, then there must have been someone to abandon them. [And this is where they're headed.] That family had two sons that night, but one had been born dead, so they sought to be rid of it. How convenient, then, that the neighbouring forest was not inaccessible, and that the blizzards would eventually bury the body, never to be seen again?