"Oh no, I just meant...if things had been different, you could have had a family and a childhood," Verity said slowly. Granted, if things had been that different, he probably wouldn't have been born at all. "Circumstances dictated you were sped-up, not your genetics. Maybe there's an alternate dimension out there where Liam Kincaid has three parents and is just joining the local Little League team or something, rather than being a soldier and Companion in a war he didn't start."