He caught them awkwardly and laughed when Quinn knocked his cap off.

“Daddy, you took forever,” Piper informed him.

“I know.”

“Did you bring the postcard?” Quinn demanded.

He pulled two crumpled postcards from his bag.

They had been sent earlier, but he’d kept duplicates because the girls liked looking at the ship drawings.

I watched him answer their questions.

He no longer tried to make the moment about how much everyone had missed him.