Silvertip Mountain What if you're making me all that I was meant to be?

Niita agreed that they could talk to Adeline together, and he was about to suggest that they go immediately, but her words stopped him. His expression turned to surprise, but there was also wonderment in it. She does? he asked to confirm. He wasn't sure from one to the next if the decisions he was making for Adeline were correct, but the fact that she sometimes called him "Dad" made him feel like he was doing something right.

Fitz came into his mind, then. Steady didn't think he could tell Adeline not to call him what she felt was right, just as he couldn't tell Odette not to call him anything negative, though in his heart he knew she felt it. He didn't think she would have stayed away if she didn't. But, would his brother approve? Maybe Steady didn't talk enough of Fitz, and maybe Adeline was forgetting him. While he was proud that she called him Dad, he knew he needed to make sure that she never forgot FitzDutiful.

Do you want to go talk to her now? he asked. It seemed like a good a time as any, but if Niita didn't feel like, he supposed they could put it off a little longer.