Asha's Child

The son of the Vistani known as Asha is a giomorgo, as well as the granddaughter of Tilda and the great granddaughter of Aliza. Soldest, an evil man from Darkon is the father. He seduced Asha and then abandoned her after she was left pregnant. Soldest eventually sent his lackeys to take Asha's child after it was born, and Asha died defending the child. Soldest's Wife wished to keep the child and raise it as her own, but Aliza believed this not and kidnapped the child, taking it into Keening to deliver it to Tristessa. Called by Soldest's wife, George Weathermay rode after her on Perseus, briefly encountered Aliza before she scored a surprise knockout blow off of him with her cudgel.

Weatermay arose to find Aliza giving the child to the banshee. Aliza told Weathermay she wished not to cut the future that she saw for Weathermay short, but that Weathermay would perish if he interfered with the banshee. With that, Aliza escaped the scene.

As Tristssa attended to the child, he began to become deformed like her own lost child. The banshee was reliving her past and mistaking the child for her own deceased one. Weathermay gave chase and encountered the banshee, whom broke his arm when he attempted to interfere. However, he managed to convince her the human child, now paralyzed with fear, was not her own, and she let them go.

Once removed from the banshee, the infant boy began returning to normal, but still remained paralyzed. Weathermay brought the child to a priest, whom healed the baby. Several days later, Weatermay delivered the baby to Soldest's wife who, ashamed of her husband's evil deeds, nonetheless was greatly relieved to have the child back.

As of the end of the Wailing short story, the child is in good health under the care of Soldest's wife, and it is not uncommon for Weathermay to visit them.