“Yet somehow through our fights, our arguing, we fell in love with each other, even though we were completely opposite in every way. I loved her, truly loved her … I still do. Then you came along, and Locasta showed up at your birth. She’d been planning her actions for some time. We didn’t know, yet we should have been prepared anyway. Locasta first cursed your mother, then took you into her arms. She told me she was turning you into a changeling before she cursed me to the cornfield—the place where you eventually found me—with a scrambled brain.”
