Niahm gave a wide grin to the man who was playing such a game with her. Karen gave a soft laugh as her eyes met Lorn's; there was true laughter dancing in her dark eyes. "I think she likes it, Lorn," she said, tilting her head. Her eyes soon looked right through him as another man's face shifted over his... The dark-haired handsome man that had been her husband. She blinked a few times as she imagined it was he who sang to the little one and not her employer.

After a few blinks, the vision faded and it was Lorn she saw instead.

Karen's smile slowly dimmed and she looked back down at little Harold and then up again after a long pause. "I wonder sometimes if things will ever be normal again... I don't think I would turn something like this away as normal... that is... the sound of a babe laughing."