Andi scratches her head. "That's a thing?"

"It's at least sort of like a thing," says Bella.

"It is observably a thing," says Ethan. "Observe its thingness. Are we going to stand around chatting, or are we planning to get home before the clock strikes midnight and we all turn into pumpkins?"

"Let's get out of here and try out our new owls."

"Grand," says Ethan. He morphs the great horned owl.

Robin does the same.

Tempted as he is to go for the pigeon again, Trouble tries that owl too.

Owls fly back to Forks.

Trouble even deigns to sleep indoors tonight!

"How soundly do you sleep?"

"Depends."

"On?"

He considers this question for a few seconds, and then says, "Stress level. If you're asking if I'm gonna wake up if somebody breaks in while I'm napping on the couch, the answer's 'probably'."

"Okay. The alternative involves moderately uncomfortable bed-shuffling shenanigans to put Andi who wakes up when people breathe on the couch."

"I manage to sleep through you listing random words all night long," says Andi. "But yeah."

"I'm not gonna sleep in the same room as your dad, either," he adds. "Nothing against your dad, I'm just - not. But I'll take the couch if that's fine with everybody."

Andi wanders upstairs while Bella's doing that.

"Yeah. Is now a good time?"

"Sure, if we're quiet."

"Sure," she murmurs.

"Okay. ...I don't really know where to start," he admits.

"Well - what's your take on what happened?"

"Ax asked me to do something I wasn't gonna do, and I didn't feel like sticking around to explain why, so I bailed," he says quietly. "Being able to just leave a conversation I don't wanna be in anymore is kind of a big thing for me."