It's alright... Them distancing themselves from me like they did made it easier for me to do the same. So I guess... even if they did it so they wouldn't feel as much killing me, it still worked out in my favor. In some fucked up ironic way.

[He leans back on the wall, sighing through his nose.]

It's good, that your father did what he did. I can't imagine what that place could've been like, if he hadn't, what coulda' happened. It's not like summoning a god wouldn't have some crazy consequences, right?

[A beat.]

And we wouldn't have you to pester and bug and mope around with.

I'm just sorry that it fucked up your lives like that. Every kid... deserves a good home. Some place they feel like they belong to.

[Alex had been looking for that place for most of his life, too... A big, solid house and there was no real heart in it... So much for dad's dogtags, huh? He's starting to wonder why the hell he wears them anymore.]