"Kieran is a boy of ten." That is and isn't an answer. She doesn't always know what sort of answer to give when it comes to Kieran, what gives too much or too little away when she was more used to people not being able to make the connection in the court simply because she did not (could not) allow it. "Tis but the two of us so I suppose what I work on has had an influence upon him too. He enjoys any sort of story he might hear."

If there is guilt in that, she is good enough to keep it buried when speaking to those who weren't part of her life before Kieran ever came into the picture.