Or a candle dancing on the breeze

"Likely not. I don't know where she finds the energy, but I love her for it." He felt if he tried to care so much he'd implode within a week from the force of feeling. He could barely keep track of things the way they were now. "Those kids are going to want for nothing," he added. He'd be amazed if they ever went without, growing in a family such as this one. Far too many loving guardians watching over them. Still, he was willing to bet Peregrine thought the same when his first group was born. Sometimes fate had other plans. Such dark thoughts didn't have a place here now, though, so he dismissed them.

"The day she starts matchmaking, though, is the day I run for the hills." he laughed. He could just picture it, a well-meaning Blue trying to hitch her friends up with eligible matches. The idea of approaching someone he barely knew, though, in such a way made his skin crawl. "Unless it's a damsel in distress. Those always do tend to work out, don't they? I just have to complete a few acts of bravery and boom, happily ever after."