"It's funny, all these other stories I've seen have a happy ending. If we hadn't come here..." That sentence didn't need finishing. He shrugged. "I guess this is Petersen's way of making that happen. In his twisted sense of helping us, as he continues to claim."
He nodded at that, eyes lowering to his daughter as she kicked her legs. She was already as full of spirit as her mother. "I saw some of what happened. It was a cruel way to have lost them." Having been back now, having felt the pain of losing Marian, and only so briefly, he could not imagine enduring it for so long. And the thought of anything happening to Katie did not bear considering. "I hope that you felt some comfort in seeing them," he continued with a measure of sympathy.