She paused a moment to take that in. She'd never heard of how Erik had become who he was. What he was. She wanted to ask what had happened, but now, with a child literally attached to him, was not the time or place. So she focused on the safer topic of conversation: what had happened to them.

"I noticed that. It's some bizarre mixture of being in the air and yet still having your feet on solid ground." She didn't like it. She wasn't sure when or if it would come crashing down, but obviously it hadn't come down in the time Erik had been here. Which gave her another question to ask.

"How long?"