Truth is they've got enough history to buy her that much, easy. He doesn't pull his hand away, and maybe there's a light pressure there, like he'd like to pull her in for just that, but maybe she's too stiff to notice. He's thinking back on when they found (and lost for good) her little girl, how he'd had to hold onto her while she fell apart. She'd fought for a while trying to get to what used to be Sophia, like she wanted to lose herself along with the rest of her world, and he'd kept her with them.

He'll keep her with them now, if he can; it's different, but it's a duty he'll willingly shoulder. Whether it's the right choice for all of them... Well. It's the right choice to try, that's all he can be sure of.

It's who they are. It's what they do.