"That's cruel," Niall says with sincerity. "To throw out one's own kin like that. And you can't do anything about the way you look either..."

I hope you will be as kind to Gisella as you are to this goddess when we return.., Serri interjects, intending to make his point heard.

"You've got nothing to be sorry for Hel; it's how you were born. There's nothing to be sorry about."