Dan paused, standing by one of the waypoints. He still held on to Abra's hand, but she mentioned Colorado and - well, it wasn't bad to bring it up, really. The choices he made, he'd make them again - he'd die for her, he knew that, knew that he'd never let her get taken by Rose and used as some nearly-infinite power source until she was discarded like the rest of those kids. Buried in a ditch somewhere, or a lonely field - the very thought gave him a shudder.
"Your mother? Oh..." This was starting to come together for him a little, bit by bit. He felt it, the way they were interwoven and it wasn't just because they both had the Shine. "...is she okay?"