Fio makes it easy to be a good parent. [her prior life has set the bar so very low. it's a good thing that his only experience with her past was a memory inside the Cage, no matter how brief it had been. he doesn't think she would have enjoyed remembering him punching her mother in the face.]

At some point, I'm going to need to speak to it, but yes. [he drops the sphere into her waiting hand.] It needs to have a chance to adapt to things. To learn that we aren't its enemy. Until then, I'll mind my own business. And yours -- why rum?