[He shook his head.] Didn't say, just that it was why he couldn't tell me who his other kid was. I guess like, for whatever this is to work he can't tell us.
[Alex found a smile in there somewhere, for Mal.] He didn't say for sure but...it might be a long time before I'd have to really do anything about...any of this at all. But I just kept thinking that it doesn't matter what I do till then, if this is how it ends. School or anything like that. [He rested his cheek on the hand covering Mal's. In short, he wasn't getting it back anytime soon.] But I dunno, I never been one to give up.