Nor can I--but in the event we don't find a way to remove them-- [He could see how shardbearers of a certain mindset might still want to have children and damn the consequences.]

--That he is, though I confess I've not had much occasion to speak to him. [Except the once, sort of indirectly, and not about rifts, the Veil, or shards.] I'd gotten the impression he's not the sort to submit to much focused questioning.