Aidan doesn't respond to that immediately, as he wheels Riley inside. The look on his face has softened into that bastard child of hope, guilt, happiness, and a touch of helplessness.

"'Grown' is a nice way of putting it. Sometimes I do wonder if what we've actually done is ruin some of them."

That is a burden he will always carry, when he sees the wounds on people he considers his children after a fashion out in the open.