Ebon Gray Spear thread Exasperation, with a touch of amusement - at himself, for not being explicit with his son to derail territorial assumptions.
*Me, puppy.* It's half a lie, but a well-intentioned one. As he knows his son never went missing, either they are eventually returned to the times they left (in which case Saetan wasn't immediately at the Eyrien after Lucivar's last memory, thus a lie), or some new timeline was created in which Lucivar did vanish (in which case Saetan would have immediately been at the eyrie, thus the truth).
*Is that satisfactory, or do I need to produce my credentials as a protector and defender?*