"It wasn't the hallways I was getting lost in," he said with a knowing smile and a wink off in her direction. He obviously needed no explanation of exactly what he was.

His smile faded though at her next words, and his eyes glanced down and aside. It was on the tip of his tongue, the very tip, to say that she could. Two words that sounded so innocuous of course, but meant so very much. It was innocent, of course, how he'd looked into it. And he had looked into it.

Just idle curiosity, of course.

Of course.

"How's yours?" he asked, gesturing off towards the kids. "She doing well?"