um. especially** sorry, I was killing a bug.
"I wouldn't be surprised," he replied seriously at the girl's suggestion of a fling on his mother's part. In truth, he would have been surprised. His mother was literally the nicest person he knew. (That isn't to say that nice people didn't have flings. But, just trust me, one would've been out of character for her.)
At the mention of the nicknames, the man just gave a shrug. "Don't ask me. They were calling me Scout before I was born. Ian was, at one point, Dill, actually."