Some of you may confused at Gilan and Alyss's relationship, basically for the background purposes, here's how it goes down:

- Gilan is looking after Redmont during Skandia and thats how they meet

- They sort of bond I guess over the loss of Will and the sadness of him being gone from the country

- Gilan confides in Alyss about how he feels lie Skandia is al, his fault and Alyss tells him otherwise

- They basically help each other through the year that their friend has been captured

and there you go! I might write a fanfic on this in the future (please note future being the key term in that) however for now im just going to post this as backstory, please review and ket me know what sickfic you would like to see next!