"I think this is a perfectly normal amount of worrying," Jack said. "If anything we aren't worrying enough."

He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging what he hoped was the last feather. "So -- how did you decide to go jumping through a portal?"

He hadn't been surprised by that fact about his previous children: Emma's daughters would never have listened to reason, and any child raised by Sebastien would have a skewed sense of danger. But Kaidan tended to be more protective.