[He must know that about her, but maybe it's unfair to project some kind of psychic connection on him. Unsuitable because her numbers didn't add correctly. The older she got, when all their years of care were wasted because she couldn't do what they needed-because they found the part of her heart that was bad and could hurt people.

They messed up. She messed up. They made her heart unsuitable or she was bad to begin with.

She doesn't answer immediately and one hand briefly raises, like she's about to cover her ear, though her expression isn't distressed at all. It's fine. The truth doesn't bother her and she refocuses her efforts on his shoes instead.]

Their hearts said that. Before they were ghosts, they looked at me and knew that sort of thing.

[Thinking what a waste of time and money while they offered her small cups of pills to keep her alive on the off chance she might become useful again.]

The adults here can't tell that so-

[He can find someone to call 'aunt' and 'uncle' and 'mom' and not worry about his strong heart making them sad one day. Won't have to worry about his new mom abandoning him to the care of doctors, unwilling to give him a chance. ]

Someone will want you. They won't be 'mom', but you'll feel how their kind heart pulls you to them.

[His mom may not have 'wanted' him, but it's a different world here. He's a good peanut. It might not bother him anymore-she just wants to make sure he's happy. He's done so many nice things for her.]

You're someone I want to be with.