Sloane's response, once again, takes Scott by surprise -- he realizes that he had constructed a rather simplistic, sentimenal story around Sloane's dead daughter.
"It's never simple, is it?" he muses, then, with the trace of a smile. "Not for people like us, anyway. And yes, we -- Dad and I were reunited, when I was an adult. We got along passably well. He worked -- abroad -- and he asked me to come work with him, once. I almost said 'yes,' but, well, there was a woman. My son's mother. I stayed behind for her, which turned out to be ironic --"
He shakes his head. "Yes," he says, "Yes, Nathan and Rachel are alive." The better modifier would be 'again' rather than 'still,' but even with Sloane's own unlikely abilities, there's too much here that he'd rather not get into. "They're both abroad right now. Pursuing their own interests --" Realizing that he probably doesn't look like he could have a child more than 15 years old or so, at the outside, he adds in a deadpan, "They're precocious."
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"It's never simple, is it?" he muses, then, with the trace of a smile. "Not for people like us, anyway. And yes, we -- Dad and I were reunited, when I was an adult. We got along passably well. He worked -- abroad -- and he asked me to come work with him, once. I almost said 'yes,' but, well, there was a woman. My son's mother. I stayed behind for her, which turned out to be ironic --"
He shakes his head. "Yes," he says, "Yes, Nathan and Rachel are alive." The better modifier would be 'again' rather than 'still,' but even with Sloane's own unlikely abilities, there's too much here that he'd rather not get into. "They're both abroad right now. Pursuing their own interests --" Realizing that he probably doesn't look like he could have a child more than 15 years old or so, at the outside, he adds in a deadpan, "They're precocious."