[He expected that hardness, knowing how much having family means to her. It stings across his senses like a cut and his ears flinch away from it - but he knows it's deserved. More deserved than she realises.

He swallows nervously.]

I thought... I thought some of what she said seemed strange, it didn't quite fit with certain things I know to be true... and particularly...

[Why is this so hard? She deserves to know. She's always deserved to know...]

I know you couldn't possibly have been with Maeve when you learned to walk. I... I know who your family were at that age...