Not trouble at all. I've been trying to figure out a way to best explain it to the six-sweep-olds and I think that explanation sums it up nicely. If you have any questions, though, I would be happy to elaborate. I'm sure that Karkat will offer you all he's learned about human culture if you ask him, but if I were you I'd come straight to the source.

Yes. I haven't married James or had Harry yet, but I knew about it before James left and then came back husband and father. Harry's best friend told me all about my son and how James and I will die for him at twenty-one.

None of it has happened to me yet, but I don't have much time left. I know what will happen. And this is the only opportunity I will ever have to actually converse with my son.

Yes, this family unit bond is that strong.