You'll find there's a definite difference between engineering and raising soldiers and actually raising children, Gorthan. Some of us may be cut out to do the former, but certainly not the latter. And vice-versa.

[That said, he's just going to be picking up that Togepi like he fully expects the thing to explode on him or something; the Togepi, to his credit, quits wailing in favor of looking completely damn confused.

...huh. Well, that didn't suck nearly as badly as it could have, now, did it.]