[ Vash gives all of them a raised brow, and then laughs. It's an uncomfortably Vash-like laugh, like the few moments you ever hear him do so genuinely. ]

You hit me with a car? That's a new one.

[ Usually he was strong enough to stop even speeding vehicles with his roots, so it must have been after he lost the fight with... the ghost one. He's not even sure how that ended, and it hurts his head to try to remember so he'll leave it alone for now.

The human's question, though... it's a dangerous one. If they knew the children were in an alternate dimension, what protection did he have? Killing children you won't ever see is a whole easier than killing an obviously pregnant person. Then again, he didn't exactly have an actual womb to put them in, so it was clear he wasn't 'physically' pregnant.

Vash would understand. ]

They're in my gate, of course. [ He says, as if that's obvious - more to annoy Wolfwood than anything else. ] I can't enter my own gate, so he checks on them and delivers them when it is time.

[ If he's not here when it's time? Well. That was a chilling thought. Could another plant enter his gate? ]