Verity was smiling and nodding though her head cocked when he mentioned 'his old mummy'. "That's very true, I don't want you to get hurt. One day you can go in the deep end."
She watched him with his kitten and she shouldn't have been surprised by the question, but she was. "Well, Marlowe, we don't know," she said truthfully. "We're trying to find out exactly what's wrong with him so that we can make him better, but we haven't had any luck.