It occurred to him that Kate had nothing to return to. She would most likely be dead in her own world, and this place truly did offer her the second chance she wanted. More than that, that chance included an all new home, complete with histories, peoples how had come before, and she had a naturally inquisitive mind. It left her seeming innocent, though he'd seen the sadness in her eyes, knew that the weight of some event somewhere, or sequence thereof, had taken away true innocent from her long ago.

All scientists, at least those left uncorrupted by the pursuit of power, shared that innocence, that sparkle of desire to know, that spurred them on, even when answers seemed always just beyond their reach.

"You...have a scientific mind." Vincent never had. It was one of the many bolts driven between himself and his father, even before his death.