Hope knew what it was like to be in a cage, too, although hers was different. She had been trapped in the darkness of Malivore until she'd been spit out, poison to the creature. And then when she'd gone back, nobody remembered her. It was as if she'd been erased from reality and nobody remembered she existed, not even her boyfriend.
"I'd like that, dad, I'd like that a lot."
They had even less chance to do that than he knew. He didn't know that he was dead back home, dead before her fifteenth birthday.