so when jaenellehad n't been on the island where surreal and manny had kept him safe and hidden , and when surreal had told him about the shadow jaenelle had created in order to bring him out of the twisted kingdom he had spent the past five years believing that he had killed the child who was his queen ; had spent the past five years believing that she had used the last of her strength to bring him out of madness so that he would call in the debt owed to her ; had spent the past five years honing his craft skills and allowing his mind to heal as much as it could for only one reason : to come to kaeleer and destroy the man who had used him as the instrument-his father , the high lord of hell .