Wait hold on let me cook
Lightfern was heavily pregnant with Mallowkit/blight before she and Jayfrost died and were sent to the Dark Forest, and gave birth to it almost immediately after arriving in the Dark Forest
So Mallowblight technically died in the womb, but is alive in the Dark Forest
Would explain why there's such a small age gap between Mallow and its siblings
What if Lightfern died giving birth?

















