“Alas, my Son,” he said. “For I fearest thou hast bound hearts with one… I… can hardly bear to say it. But it is clear she is no human woman, and is, well, it is our conviction that you have taken up with… a Selkie.

And worse yet, neither she nor you are aware of her true nature. How she came to think herself a human woman is beyond my ken, but the matter is extreme, and dangerous, at best.” — Overheard in Hrielith