“Always thought, sooner or later.” ...he'd have children of his own. He's less sure of that ultimate fate in Baedal than he was in his own home - things are different here. People live differently. He lives differently. He'd never given it much in-depth thought, at home; it's just the way things go. The way his life would probably go, and he'd never minded that. He'd liked the idea, having his own family. His own children underfoot, his own wife to worry about. “Family, the way it goes.”

He prefers it, he thinks, to the idea of leaving nothing behind when he dies.