Silver Creek all i want is to have my peace of mind.

By return, Fig ignored her tone, which only made her pouty for a second.  She couldn't really tease him about the kids, though.  Oh, yeah, right. She hadn't forgotten about them, but she hadn't thought about them being older.  They'd been too young for her to really know them before, and as it led up to her leaving, she'd been balking at babysitting pretty hard.  Hopefully they were old enough not to need it anymore; even now, it still felt a bit like a way to keep her busy.

As she had been talking, she'd been passively listening, following behind Fig and adjusting to his stride as he went.  It was a nice early warning to anything she might have to deal with when she came upon it, and a habit she picked up from following Penn (all but those times she forced him to let her take point).  Now she switched, dropping back to follow Penn.  You're being weirdly quiet.  There's gotta be something you're looking forward to, she said, nudging him firmly onto the spot with her words.