Hah, adopted. We'll see. [A nerve has been tapped, raw and painful under the friendly mask he wears. Still, he remains kind.] I'd like to meet them, though. Always enjoy meeting new people. I'd like to know if it happened - if so, there's someone I'm missing terribly.

[John smiles softly. There's a strange sort of wisdom in his eye for a moment, there for a second then gone in a flash - and it's old. Ancient, even.]

Maybe we're both.

Beautiful, fragile creatures who had to force change in ourselves in order to fly.