Freya flinches at that interpretation of her father, after using him as her anchor and her hope for so long. She doesn't understand why the Mikael she knew would do the things that he did, but that's something she's never meant to understand. Not until she talks to Mikael herself.

"I can't speak to that. I haven't seen my father in a thousand years." But she had been the apple of her father's eye while her mother couldn't even fight for her.