Northstar Vale Excuse me, while I collapse on your border.

malice is quick to follow him, naming the stranger. sebastian -- oh! oh fuck, that's mato's dad. the man in question confirms, explaining how he arrived in such a state -- alarian had mentioned something about a war, hadn't he? so it was the caldera and blackfeather.

vaguely delight wonders why sebastian was with the caldera, given how they'd treated his father -- but there's not much time to dwell on it. sebastian needs help. "right," he says, "um. we've not got a healer at the moment, but i can -- sunspire, next door, they might have someone." seabreeze for sure, if no one else (unaware as he is of the pregancies over there). "in the meantime, you're welcome here, of course." there's plenty of time for him to be judgemental about sebastian's alignment with the villainous caldera later when he's sure the father of his love of his life isn't about to keel over.