Blackfeather Woods and she came to Troy with a dowry; death

she didn't hate him, he could see this plainly. she didn't look necessarily pained nor angry at his decision; and just as he'd thought before he thinks now hate would be easier. he should've been relieved. instead, he is still shackled with guilt and an unforetold feeling of foreboding. relmyna tells him to go with her blessing and he looks at her for a long moment, as if he is trying to memorize her. perhaps he is. it is worse yet because he desperately wants her and her daughters to join him and yet he knows it is selfish of him to ask. selfish because he very much suspects that she intends to live out the rest of her life in these woods.

wintersbane has always and would always be selfish — it's his nature. you could come with me. an offer; but one that even as he speaks suspects heavily will not be taken. still, he makes it all the same.