"...but that's enough," Kevin says. He's unable to keep his emotions, whatever they are, from leaking into his voice a little, and his shoulders fall. "You don't hate him, that's -- it's enough."

He doesn't know, of course, just what has transpired between them lately at home, or how Glen is going to change in the century between his death and his unsealing. But the Glen he knows here, the one Kevin has come to love and respect just as much -- that Glen will be happy, he knows. The tiny Gilbert is as much a son to Glen as the tiny Lacie is a daughter to Kevin, now. He can't imagine how it would hurt if the girl turned on him like that.