( She hands Elena the book and the passage she's been studying. )

Pithius. He's a spirit and the commander of liars. He feeds on hope and whispers lies to his hosts. I think he attached himself to Nadia's father and then her mother. Their deaths were too close together and there was local talk about her father's unfounded paranoia. They were happily married and all of a sudden he would get into very public fights over his wife's alleged infidelity.

( So much that he ended up ending his life over it. )

He's keeping her from me. And using me.