"I get that," the superball said with a wry smile. "For me, it's just to keep going."

It made her trauma reaction of subsistence eating suck even more than it usually would. And yes, now she was making plans to bake for Ava, just because.

Kathy was the mom-friend to people she wasn't even friends with, yes.

"Does Lock need extra calories, too? Or does he just sit between you both and try to keep track of all his fingers?"