"More than good." His hand slips away from Neil's neck, down to curl around his fingers. "I was standing here, day I decided to sign, and I was thinking..." He laughs, shaking his head. "Fuck, I don't even know what I was thinking, except I think it was actually about the girls. Thinking this is great but it's a lot for just two people. It's like some part of me knew."

He points up to a particularly large oak that stands just at the edge of where the trees get thicker, a towering black shape in the dark. "I'm gonna build 'em a treehouse in that one."