"I thought... some part of you must have known. I was raised as a sister to you and Joshua, and I felt that affection for you both, but... I always wondered each morning that I woke up if it would be the day your mother or father thought me too much of a burden. My parents were likely dead. The North broken by the blight."

His father was never actively cruel to her, but she believes there's more to being a father than providing food and shelter.