Bassena also stared at the swarm of children playing on the ground; the healthy visitors and some of the patients who were well enough to still play outside. If someone were to ask, Bassena would say he didn't hate children. In fact, he quite liked them. They were cute, they were little devils that needed to be guided, and they were people who he had to protect the most.
But liking children and having them was a separate matter.
"We can be a family without children," Bassena muttered. He didn't sound dry or bitter; he was just stating the fact.
"That's true," Zein agreed.
After all, there were couples that had no means of having children, or had no intention of having them. Would that mean they couldn't be called families? There were people who came together for a cause and called each other family without involving children, and in Zein's eyes, it was still an eligible bond.
