Herbalists' Cache ghosts

Did he want to talk about it? No. 

I think they're mine... he confessed in a quiet rumble. 

How did Swordfish tell Lestan that he had fucked up so badly he'd gotten that sweet girl pregnant and now she was traipsing the wilderness. There was a burning of guilt in his stomach. The young wolf did not want to abandon Lestan or their search for the witch and her familiar. But he remembered being a young boy and having his father vanish for a long time. Njord had come back, of course. It didn't make his absence any less painful.