“Which one do we start with?”“The one standing,” I told her as we moved over in front of him, and I changed the freeze spell on him to just a ...artial one on his lower body.“What are you... ?” he started to say on recovering, but quickly came to a halt as he looked around at the dining room.“What have you done?” he asked in a quieter voice.“We’ve moved you to a more convenient place to talk,” I told him. He reached into his coat pocket and was shocked to find it empty.“You shouldn’t have been. ”“Not much. Dad and I don’t like broccoli and Mom doesn’t like cooked spinach. Otherwise, I don’t know of anything else that they really don’t like.”“Do they like lamb?”“Yeah, we have that once or twice a year.”“All right, we’ll do that.”Once I got confirmation that we could get a three-rack lamb crown roast, I texted Dad and the Moms to ask one of them to pick it up from the butcher on the way home. Emma was waiting for me to finish the text.“Would you, please, tell your parents that we’ll be. .. That’s all gone, though.”Deena just hugged her, letting Abby cry a bit, what I was hoping were cleansing tears. I have no idea what to do. This stuff isn’t in the manual.“You know we’re your family,” I said softly. “Family is forever. We’re here...”“Y’all’ve made me feel like that from the beginning. Dan and Nina, they just sort of absorbed me into their home and you all wrapped me up here in this community. It’s alien to what I had before. Nobody’s being fake or devious. Y’all just LOVE. "Not yet it isn't. But it can't last forever. We'll wait for it to stop, or at least not rain so much, and then we can run back home."Katherine sniffed. "I hate the rain! It's made my shiny shoes so muddy! Look! And I've got some horrid black splodges on my nice white socks. Mummy'll be ever so mad when she finds out!"Edward laughed. Girls! They were hopeless! No wonder it was men that went off to fight the war and the women stayed behind: working in the factories and driving the buses and.