"Thank you, and I, you. I am grateful for the people who I am allowed to care for as their happiness is my own," he replied with a pleasant smile. "I think, though, with just a bit of time you will come to see that you are just as good with kids. Hopefully this entire ordeal is over before that comes to complete fruition."

The children on board were all still old enough to be able to take care of themselves to some extent but he was willing to bet that things would get all kinds of disarrayed if they were reverted to infants.

"I will retrieve a clean set of clothes for you. And...burn the other?" He asked uncertainly.