Here, more flustered hesitations, more side glance, in case, just in case his guards might come and break him free and deliver him from his embarrassed confession.
In the end, he admits it: yes, he kept a woman's company. He found her in the caves, and they were in love, in true and earnest love, and he offered her marriage. So she gave him a taste of a precious thing her tribe held close, and it strengthened his fragile, broken body. She joined him in the fortress, and they were to be wed. He had intended to do right by her.
But then, her precious cure only settled some of his aches, and he had been in pain his whole life over. He needed more. And she and her people were too selfish to give it, for all he would have made her his queen.
They argued, then made up in the forest. She gave him the cure, he says, as her bridal gift — but tragedy struck, and Rathakku's armies attacked. They killed him. He escaped alone with the cure. Everyone at the court was so suspicious, so vile, so quick to misunderstand — Haiva could not bear. Deimar, bless his heart, offered to make all this trouble go away and coverit up. A terrible, heartbreaking accident.
Combined with Emilia's unfortunate feet incidents, Licyn's information and Caitlyn's account, you should be able to glue it all together. Or hover below for spoilers!
Sickly, shrewd Haiva met a mermaid. They either fell in love, or he played the part well. She was besotted with her soft-spoken, kindly prince that she joined him on land and thought to give him a taste of the miracle-shards that strengthen and transform their bodies, so he might reshape his own into something strong. He took it, but needed more — she couldn't betray her people to give it. He insisted, they quarrelled, she fled in the forest to reach river water. They fought. He killed her and took the shards, which worked but gave him strange symptoms while reshaping his body. He stabilised himself with the flower.
Now that he is better and no longer dependent on Deimar or his betrothed to get on, Haiva is significantly more 'confident' (arrogant) and less mannered. He remains obsessed with his former intended and those who resemble her.
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Here, more flustered hesitations, more side glance, in case, just in case his guards might come and break him free and deliver him from his embarrassed confession.
In the end, he admits it: yes, he kept a woman's company. He found her in the caves, and they were in love, in true and earnest love, and he offered her marriage. So she gave him a taste of a precious thing her tribe held close, and it strengthened his fragile, broken body. She joined him in the fortress, and they were to be wed. He had intended to do right by her.
But then, her precious cure only settled some of his aches, and he had been in pain his whole life over. He needed more. And she and her people were too selfish to give it, for all he would have made her his queen.
They argued, then made up in the forest. She gave him the cure, he says, as her bridal gift — but tragedy struck, and Rathakku's armies attacked. They killed him. He escaped alone with the cure. Everyone at the court was so suspicious, so vile, so quick to misunderstand — Haiva could not bear. Deimar, bless his heart, offered to make all this trouble go away and coverit up. A terrible, heartbreaking accident.
Combined with Emilia's unfortunate feet incidents, Licyn's information and Caitlyn's account, you should be able to glue it all together. Or hover below for spoilers!
Sickly, shrewd Haiva met a mermaid. They either fell in love, or he played the part well. She was besotted with her soft-spoken, kindly prince that she joined him on land and thought to give him a taste of the miracle-shards that strengthen and transform their bodies, so he might reshape his own into something strong. He took it, but needed more — she couldn't betray her people to give it. He insisted, they quarrelled, she fled in the forest to reach river water. They fought. He killed her and took the shards, which worked but gave him strange symptoms while reshaping his body. He stabilised himself with the flower.
Now that he is better and no longer dependent on Deimar or his betrothed to get on, Haiva is significantly more 'confident' (arrogant) and less mannered. He remains obsessed with his former intended and those who resemble her.