"I haven't seen him since before," she admits, sparsely skipping over the details of that (when she thinks of him, she thinks of the last message she got, anxiously assuring her that he'd get her home if she didn't like it), "but all the things that are...more, now, he had them, as well. Stronger, I think." There aren't that many generations between them and Ælfræd; their blood is still closer to fey than to human, and it was more marked in her father again.