"It is complicated, as I'm certain you know." Certainly not for the same reasons, but if anyone understands, Rue thinks it may be Winter.

"I was kidnapped by the fey as a cub, taken from my family and stolen away to the fey realm. And so I grew up among the faeries, first as their pet, but then as their magic awakened me, as a fellow fey. But still, they viewed me as a beast among them, someone who would give into my baser instincts and turn feral eventually.

So I became someone else. I changed my name and wore an elven glamour for thousands of years, and I grew to such high status among them that I was admired from afar because I became completely untouchable. I had no friends, no close companions, no drive outside of fulfilling my one singular duty. It is not quite the same, but I do not know who that distant, lonely person was."