He'd stuck is foot in his mouth again, hadn't he? Still, what he'd said was the truth of it, but he still hadn't quite learned to be more careful of his thoughts around Dahlia. She was such an empathetic soul that he sometimes forgot she took everything quite literally.

"Slightly terrifying. I've never so much as kept a plant alive for more than a week." No, he'd only gotten acceptable grades in herbology in school thanks to Skeeter. "Never had a pet, even." He was genuinely too busy and had always figured he'd feel guilty leaving a pet alone for long workdays. "I'm excited, I promise. I just sort of got to an age where I didn't think it was going to happen if it didn't happen soon." But it was happening and he would get used to it eventually. He had nieces now, little ones, he could practice on them right?