No. Mark was captured and was trapped in Faerie. Helen was exiled to a remote island. They're my half-siblings, their mother was a faerie. There was a war five years ago, and the faeries helped the enemy, so when we won the war, Helen was exiled and they didn't try to rescue Mark because the Council didn't care because they were half-faerie. [The more he talks about it, the deeper his frown gets.]

It's not fair - they didn't do anything wrong. They can't help who their mother was. But the faeries let Mark go and we made a deal with them that would allow Helen to come back home with her wife. There was going to be a Council meeting about it... but I was taken here before it started so I don't know what happened.

It would be good if Helen and Aline got to come back home. She's the oldest. Julian wouldn't have to do so much anymore. Mark's older than him but... [And here he looks like he's trying to understand something he just doesn't understand.] Mark can't.