"No. Maybe it will force her to come to face her own pain. Of course I could go get her--anytime. I cannot let her go through her life feeling nothing but pain. I have to give her some time to work this out. Rob needs time to grow up, and Khaat needs time to deal with her grief. If I needed to, I'd just go shrink her and bring her back in my pocket. But that won't help. When she's ready, she'll need us to pick her back up again, dust her off, and help her start her life again, whether that's with Rob or without him. But Rob went off to Romainia chasing bloody dragons for weeks and never gave a thought to her. He was happier being a damned animagus, running after dragons as a Labrador. That does not impress me much. Doesn't tell me he loves her. Tells me he's twelve. So, if that's what he wants, then bloody well let him go back to it. Stop breaking my daughter's heart. Leave my granddaughter alone. Just get out of the picture altogether. At some point, I do have to straighten Khaat out in her thinking. Rob wasn't seeing any other woman. The "she" they were talking about was her baby. Khaat's own daughter. Not some other woman. He hasn't seen anybody else. But he didn't care to straighten her out on that either. Preferred to redirect his anger back at me than taking responsibility for being a prat."