"I can't disappoint her after she came back from the Heavenly Shores to help me put things right…"
If Owain had any doubts about the state of his father's mind, those words made it abundantly clear that the old Marquis had fallen so deeply into delusions that he believed that Owain's deceased mother had returned to the world of the living to help Bors 'put things right.'
His father hadn't just fallen into a delusion that they were still living in the days before his mother's death. His mind was clearly broken, pulling bits and pieces together like scraps of fabric and stitching them together into a fabric that only seemed whole and beautiful to the man who wore it like a patchwork cloak. But to anyone else, anyone who was still sane, it was clear that the aging lord's mind was full of holes.
