It was a shame Scott wasn't here. Darius, it seemed, was very much his father's child. The two of them might have gone away together and bonded in manly, unemotional ways. "Not dumb, exactly. Stubborn would be a more accurate word for it."
"You can only give so much before you burn yourself out," Emma said. "It's best for you to do all you can within reason and not exhaust yourself or drive yourself mad. When the next situation arises, you don't want to be unable to help because you were doing too much."