For a more complete understanding of Norma's shocked reaction to Alban there at the end, I'll refer the curious reader back to Book VI of our Daily Grind adventures, The Eyes of the World. In short, though, she's spent most of her life fearing and despising the Fae: it's only been in the last three months of the story that she's come to see that they're not quite the monsters she's been taught...
Seventy-Seven - For Want of a Nail