The Tangle from the heart of the universe

though reaction from the boy — seething — strikes hard at the chest of the would-be ironking, wintersbane is quick to remind himself it's not entirely unwarranted. the boy had been young(er) last wintersbane had spent any sort of time with him, let alone actually been apart of sagtannet. without any way to feed the boy while he was still suckling had left wintersbane at wylla's mercy and in the end, wintersbane assume(d) that a family unit was better than a single-father.

especially given wintersbane's penchant for trouble.

it could be argued he did a well enough job with quellcrist he couldn't really take full credit for her, could he?

i found you after your mother abandoned you upon her birthing den in sawtooth. it's wintersbane. he does not mean to speak the terms of abandonment with such callousness or lightness but it is what it is and largely in the past now. for wintersbane, there was no sense in dancing 'round it.