Elijah jumped and there was a sharp hiss as he burned a finger on the pan. He shook his head and glanced in the other room to the boy as he was trying to finish up and bring the kid some fish soup and bread. "No, you need a man and a woman to make a baby. But there are lots of children who have no parents. They died or the child was abandoned. So I think it isn't a bad thing if they want to raise the children who'd been left on their own, do you?" He walked in and placed the meal before the boy. "Eat up.'