In chapter 22 of Gathering Blue, Kira enjoys a touching reunion with her father, a man she previously thought was dead. Kira had always believed that her father was set upon and killed in the forest one day by wild beasts; this is what Jamison told her.

But now she discovers that Jamison was lying to her all along. Kira's father, Christopher, was attacked by his fellow hunters and left for dead. It turns out that they were jealous of the power that Christopher was soon to enjoy as an appointee to the Council of Guardians.

Thankfully, Christopher survived thanks to the kindness of some strangers, who whisked him away to their own little community, where they cared for him, soothing his pain and dressing his wounds. Christopher had been living in the village of the healing, as he calls it, ever since.

Naturally, Kira wants to know why her father didn't come back sooner. Christopher says that he was unable to do so because, in the wake of the attack in the forest, he lost his memory, and it took a long time before it came back.

He also says that, even when his memory eventually came back, he couldn't make his way back home on account of his being blind and weak. Furthermore, his enemies, the people who brutally attacked him and left him for dead, could still be there.