"Yeah," he says. "I'm good. I have my mind back, what's there not to be happy about?" And he is.

But.

"It's just," he says, and prods the lower edge of the desk with the toe of his shoe. "This kid's not even born yet and I want to keep anything bad from happening to him, ever. I can teach him to be safe in the water and wear sunscreen and not eat poisonous plants and to stay away from the dinosaurs. But this island stuff... I won't be able to protect him from that."