"Oh, I'm not upset it happened. Not really. I just want to try and avoid a repeat," he says his voice slightly accented, all Appalachian vowels and softness. "She's family so I want things as good for her here as they can be."

She's their only child here, proof of Ronan's brilliance and abilities.

"Would you thread them loose so she can move them about? I figure she's gotten down some speech, and she understands a lot of what we say so she should be able to?"