The ghost raises his grief-stricken eyes at you. "While I was alive, I was a coward. A coward and a liar. That

The ghost raises his grief-stricken eyes at you. "While I was alive, I was a coward. A coward and a liar. That's how it went — on one hand, I felt Dorsy was a good man, a reliable man, a much better match for my daughter than some dryad. On the other hand, it would bring misfortune on me... on us, the village, to refuse the fey — and my Nyta, she truly loved the dryad. What was I left to do? If I gave her to Dorsy — the fey would seek revenge, if I gave her to the fey — Dorsy would seek revenge."