Pietro's attempt to bundle her was unpracticed and a little clumsy, but he tucked the cloak carefully round her all the same, and the action distracted him from the darker thoughts he was still trying to process. He reached quickly to try and scrub his eyes with the heel of his palm, roughly forcing the tears back and putting on a brave face for his daughter.
The offer took him by surprise, and he eyed his father skeptically. Pietro had obviously been cared for well enough to make it to this point alive, but Erik had hardly been the model father. It made the offer more than a little ironic, and the silent beat that followed said more that Pietro could have with words, waiting for his father to acknowledge the slight hypocrisy of that statement.