Hilgya: a redemption arc?

[Inkidu]

Indeed. She's the one who made the decision in the first place, after sounding him out on whether he has a wife or girlfriend:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0076.html
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0079.html

Combine with the fact that he's a virgin and that she can tell:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0083.html

and it's safe to say that treating him as the one seducing her, gets things entirely backward.

What I think has happened is that Firehelm's actions have saddled her with a responsibility she can't shirk when she feels like it and that pisses her off. If it's one thing she hates its being responsible. I mean, the Giant could totally botch the handling (he's human after all), and make Durkon the bad guy for not being there for a child he had no idea existed at all. It wasn't as if she was breaking her back or bank account to scry him or do a sending, which she probably can do being a cleric. This is an event with zero foreshadowing, and adding a bunch after the fact would be really hackneyed.

I have more confidence in the Giant's writing abilities than that though.