“I mean, I could track him down, couldn’t I?” O asks Ben.
“Maybe,” Ben says, “but then what?”
He worries she has this fantasy-she’s going to meet her dad, he’s going to be great, they’re going to have this relationship.
“I don’t know, ask him questions.”
Ben knows that she already has the answers in her head-her father always wanted to be with her, Paqu is the Evil (Step) Mother who forced him away.
“Like why he left before you were born?” Ben asks. “Like if he loves you? What’s he going to say, O, that’s going to make your life any better?”
She has the obvious riposte.
What’s he going to say
To make my life any worse?