"The stuff you used to have to eat wasn't food, it was fuel. There's a big difference," Sook added, "Ned's wonderful at his job here, better than me really. I haven't had the chance to drink is coffee though, I'll take your word for how good it is." She turned back to Ned and smiled softly, genuinely happy that he had looked after her other baby.
"Okay. One by one," she cleared her throat, "Your brother here has a partner, Izzy. They have one year old twin girls and Izzy's pregnant again," she said slowly, "But this island is also weird. Those twin daughters are also here as adults, from our future. There's more daughters and sons here as adults," she thought for a moment before she took out a pencil and an order pad and drew him a diagram. "Too many to mention, really. Adele is... she's my daughter, but grown up..."
Sook passed the diagram to him, "But the island takes people away too. The father of my daughter and this baby, he's... he's gone. The island gives and takes."