Although she was his own daughter, Adam always thought Dorothy was quite mysterious.
Witch offspring are born with memory, so most are quite precocious, but this child of his was unusually so.
Adam still remembers when he secretly took Dorothy away from Euphilia's Shining Territory. During that escape, his daughter, still swaddled, opened her eyes and gave him a strange look.
It wasn't the gaze of a little witch who had just been born; it felt more like an exchange with a peer.
Perhaps he was indeed under too much pressure from being hunted, needing someone to talk to, or he was frightened by his daughter's strange gaze. He couldn't help but explain his motives.
At that time, he briefly mentioned his predicament, expressing his hope as a father that his daughter would not become the new generation's warmonger.
