How did Longshot's mothers always see more about him than Alison did? She wasn't intentionally unobservant. Then again, she supposed that she supposed that the clan got to see him focusing on something more often than she did. At home, he changed as his whims took him and Alison wasn't big on trying to direct him too often.

"What is he looking for? What doesn't he have here?" Maybe the other woman had some insight, because Alison was completely in the dark.

"He's been held back and held down so much in his life. I don't want to risk him ever resenting me." She knew from experience that it was possible to resent the ones you loved. She and her father had that problem for years.