"Yeah, you know I do," Sabrina answers, and it's funny, how all the crazy boundless love that he inspires turns to a much more comforting, safe warmth and affection. "All the best ones, especially."

She's quiet for a moment, because what she needs is a very interesting set of conversations.

Maybe, she thinks, it will be easier to tell him about school while she's in this form.

"On a practical level," she says, "I need you to sign for a shipment of teeth that's coming in this morning, maybe in fifteen minutes tops. Then I need to get someone else here and, um, I just kind of want to go home."