Suddenly, the being kids thing didn't seem as bad. It was still an awful imposition, of course, something done to them without their permission, and that would never not be bad. But there was at least an upside to the awful imposition.

"...okay, now I do know what we do next, and it's 'be kids,'" Jessica said, bouncing to land on her knees and square her shoulders. "It is 'do all of the kid stuff we can think of.'"