I'm sorry that you had to go through such a thing as well.

[It's strange how pain can create common ground here...the trials they've face may not be the same, or even remotely similar but the underlying hurt is universal.]

My father was Abhorsen before me. He had gone missing in the Old Kingdom two weeks before I was brought here.

[Her smile turns bitter sweet; it was a sorrow she has come to terms with but it was a weight on her shoulders none the less.]

I found him. But I could not save him.