…Looking at the kids has made me realise just how miraculous they are. Now, I know that sounds like boastful parentposting, but… I've been a father figure to other young people before. I've been helpless to save most of them. I watched the world crush the life out of them…
This is a little (more than a little) different. I don't have to guide the twins through adolescence (yet), or from a distance attempt to offer them psychic shelter from abusive home lives. They get to grow up, and develop, entirely under my and my partners’ supervision.