Wheeling Gull Isle but i just can't believe him

Lavender. He knew that... didn't he?

'Father says he likes to give them out because of their soothing properties,' the young woman said.

"Soothing," he repeated, and bent his head and sniffed at the flower, snorting after a moment. "I don't find it very soothing," he said, and then glanced at the man he had been calling the shadow in his head. "But... thank you for your..." He paused. Hospitality? For saving his life? "... Thank you," he amended, simply.

A word came back to him, then--father--and he glanced between the man and the woman. "Are you related?"