... your mind?" "Sahmethin' Tokee sed," Pickles replied right away. "He still theenks ahf ya leeke a fahther." Charles sighed, but didn't let his smile waver. "He seemed a liddle streessed aboot it." "Stressed... to that." Pickles slowly nodded. "So ... ya don' theenk ya'd've meede a good fahther, 'r guardien?" Charles shook his head rather easily. "No. Not what Toki needed, anyway. Probably not ...