Havelock: "I didn't really have a choice in the matter. There's nothing wrong with being a blacksmith, but then my dad was all like 'ye need ta get outta here before ye die of smoke inhalation or work yerself to death' or something like that. I tried to appeal to your dad, him being the chief and all, by he was not having it," he said, Gobber's words spoken as an imitation. He wasn't about to admit it to Jo or anyone else, but there was one moment, albeit brief, that he had feared Gobber had no longer wanted his adopted child. Of course, he had gotten over it pretty quickly, but the thought had nagged at him nonetheless.