How would you show a specific entry 'and' its children I'm creating a footer menu and want to show an entry id and its children, atm I'm just getting the descendants but struggling to show the parent and children as well

&lt;nav class="cell small-12"&gt;

    &lt;ul class="nested  menu vertical"&gt;

        {% set entries = craft.entries.section('pages').descendantOf(8) %}

        &lt;p&gt;{{ entry.parent }}&lt;/p&gt;

        {% nav entry in entries %}

        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="c-main-nav__li__a" href="{{ entry.url }}"&gt;{{ entry.title }}&lt;/a&gt;

            {% ifchildren %}
            &lt;ul class="menu vertical sub-items"&gt;
                {% children %}
            &lt;/ul&gt;
            {% endifchildren %}

        &lt;/li&gt;

        {% endnav %}

    &lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;/nav&gt;


Appreciate this is the wrong approach any feedback appreciated on how to display the title of id 8 as well as its children, atm parent.entry is not showing
Try merging like this

{% set parent = craft.entries.section('pages').id(8) %}

{% set entries = craft.entries.section('pages').descendantOf(8).limit(1) %}

{% set entries = parent|merge(entries) %}

{% for entry in entries.all() %}
  output your entries here
{% endfor %}