The villagers were planning to turn the boy against her, and then make him bait so the mother would come quietly. The boy was evil minded as his father was. He knew that the villagers were planning it, but still he stood with them to kill his own mother.
As the villagers' nefarious scheme unfolded, the woman's worst fears were realized in the most devastating of ways. The bond between mother and child, once a source of comfort and strength, had been twisted into a weapon aimed squarely at her heart.
Unbeknownst to her, her child had been poisoned by the same darkness that had consumed his father, his innocent exterior masking a heart as cold and unforgiving as the villagers who sought her downfall. Though he knew of their plans to manipulate him, he willingly embraced his role as a pawn in their deadly game, his soul tainted by the same malevolent forces that had driven his father to betray her.
