That is both sick and exactly the kind of thing my birth mother would have done. I guess I just don't understand why she had an affair with him at all if that's how she feels about nonhumans.

I have. My adopted parents don't want me to. I know it would be expensive to attempt, since I would have to go back to Serbia from the United States, and I might not be able to find him, but in spite of the long odds, I still want to try.

...does that sound stupid? [There's something vulnerable in his expression, if not to the degree that would be present in a human talking about something of the same caliber.] I miss him.