He heard the footsteps before Jim got up to him so he just gave him a smile as he looked back at him then back down at the sleeping ones on his lap. A soft laugh escaped him then. Fatherhood suited him, hm? "I always wondered if it would. Perhaps I would have been able to hold my boy like this in the gardens of the palace had he been born while I lived."

Iskandar gave a stroke to their ears again. "Unfortunately he was not a boy to ever know the face of his father."