"My uncle says, when he's tired and feels the years, that he was the stone that kept you all balanced," she added softly. The sane one. Every team might need such upon occasion. "He prefers to stay on his home grounds now, and only the threat of my leaving Nevada's lands drew him forth today." Because he did have some interest in the world his only remaining daughter was heading into.

"Pardon me if I feel that my path in life was perhaps best in my uncle's hands?"