[ Bones releases a sigh, those words hitting him deep in his heart. It's true that he'll always be her father, but... in a way, that's what scares him. ]

She deserves... not this. [ He gestures towards his... everything. ] Someone better than me.

[ Sorry, Edgin, this dad is still deep in his self-loathing era. But it's kind of Edgin to keep him away from that particular thought. ]

Been about ten years, give or take, since the divorce so she'd be... shit, thirteen? Fourteen, maybe? She probably looks even more like her mother, now.

[ He looks back at her, watching the both of them. ]