However, Brendan assures Aisling that it is necessary for completing the book, and that without the eye it will be impossible. A desperate Aisling begs him not to go, saying that Crom will kill him just as he killed her mother and her people. He says that he must retrieve Crom's other eye. After breaking Brendan out of his room, the pair retreat to the forest where Brendan explains to Aisling why he was locked up. Later, when Abbot Cellach locked Brendan into his room, Aisling turned Pangur Ban into a spirit-like creature to slip through the keyhole into the tower and free Brendan, which she used a magical song to do. Aisling pushed against a statue standing beside the entrance, making it collapse and block the cave. Despite her warnings not to speak his name, Brendan called Crom several times, still believing that he was not real, which resulted in branches of darkness emerging from the open entrance of the cave. On the way back she lost Brendan accidentally, finding him near Crom Cruach's dwelling. Aisling led Brendan to the top of a huge old oak tree, where she told him her name. She agreed to show him where he could find what he was looking for, but made him promise that he and Pangur Ban, the cat who accompanied him, would never again enter the forest. She watched him from a hidden place, but as Wolves attacked Brendan, she called them back and talked with the boy. Aisling lived alone in the forest surrounding Kells, until Brendan entered the forest in search of ingredients for ink. An unspecified amount of time ago, Crom Cruach killed the rest of her people. She changes forms, but switches primarily between wolf and girl. Aisling is a fairy-like creature with magical abilities.
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