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After another hour and a half, the plane lands.

Bella heads to the ladies' room right away, of course.
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So does Robin!

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Trouble demorphs and remorphs as quickly and quietly as possible; you never know when someone's going to come in.

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Ethan does likewise.

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And then he is tucked away again.

"Showtime," mutters Bella.

And she and Andi and Robin head to the baggage claim to meet... someone, anyway.
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Here's someone, all right!

He hugs the twins.

He offers Robin his hand to shake. "You must be Robin."
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She shakes his hand. "How'd you guess?"

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"Process of elimination. What's your bag look like?"

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"Little and black with pink and red swirls painted on; you can't miss it."

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"All right then." And the baggage carousel is observed intently in case it displays such a thing, or either twin's bag.

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Eventually all of the bags are retrieved, and the girls follow Charlie - for lack of a better word - to his police cruiser.

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Robin is quiet.

She just doesn't feel like making conversation right now.
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Seems to suit Charlie fine.

The drive home takes about forty-five minutes, and then he says:

"You all make yourselves at home. I'll be out for an hour - got a Sharing meeting, you girls are all welcome if you'd like to come along - but then I'll be back and we can catch up."
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"You have fun, Dad," says Bella softly.

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"I know you've made yourselves clear you don't think much of it, but just to be sure..."

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"We'll just unpack," says Andi, shaking her head.

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"Yeah," says Robin.

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"Suit yourselves."

And he's off.
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"I would never, ever guess," says Andi, shuddering, "if I didn't know."

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Bella unpockets Trouble. "We know when it eats, or at least have a very good guess, now. We can schedule our we-want-to-go-hiking trip accordingly."

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Robin unpockets Ethan.

"Right," she says as the boys start to demorph. "Do we know where we want to go hiking?"
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"Olympic National Park. Probably most convenient if you're the one who really wants to go hiking. It knows us as well as Charlie does."

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"Sure," she says. "Tell me all about Olympic National Park so I can get properly excited."

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Bella relates what she knows about the park and its hiking-related virtues.

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