He still checks the wards every night before going to bed. And he pretends not to notice his wife doing the same after he's finished. They both need to feel completely safe to get any sleep and checking the wards every night is the only way they can feel that. When his daughter first asked him why they did that, she was only five and all he told was that it's a mummy and daddy thing. She didn't mention it again until she was twelve. And then she just asked if because of the war that happened all those years ago. He nodded and she never said anything about it and stopped her brother when he was about to. And all he can remember thinking about that is that it's so lucky she's as smart as her mother and that she won't make him explain what he went through all those years ago.