"You're old! And busy!" Ella laughed. "--and chasing flamingos requires you to be here, which, like, only happens on the parent weekends or during reunions, or if there's weirdness in which case we don't usually have tiiiiiiiiime to chase them."

Beat.

"Tho, once we got to chase gremlins to save the world, which was awesome, but also they taste bad if you do actually nip them by accident."