"She's very nice," Sadde pipes in.

"I'm sure she is!" agrees Ev. "Is she around, or…?"

"She's doing some work right now, actually," responds Theo. "Upstairs, but I can go get her if you want?"

"Oh no, it's fine," she smiles, looking around a bit.

Aaaand since Theo isn't, like, being a good host and stuff and honestly she's spent more time here than at her place these past few days: "So do you want, like, something to drink...?"

"That'd be nice, please!" she smiles.

Gosh, isn't she smiling a lot.

Theo leads them kitchen-wards. "Um, what do you want to drink? Tea, coffee…? Juice?"

Pause. "– Coffee? Thanks."

"So how've you been since school ended?"

Theo goes to get the coffee.

"Oh, I've been good! Relaxing from schoolwork, doing… approximately nothing, actually." Shrug. "It's been fun."

She grins. "For certain values of 'approximately nothing' it can be pretty fun, yeah."

"Music, reading, IM-ing, cooking. Yeah, not actual nothing."

"– Be back in a minute," says Theo. "Should tell my mom."

He leaves the kitchen.

"I've been doing more-or-less the same. Hanging out with Theo and Matt and Willow, too."

"Oh? Sounds like fun."

She looks around at the countertop and, seeing no mugs, grabs a couple out of what looks likely to be a cupboard containing mugs.

One slips out of her hand.

"Careful—"

It falls.

It stops before it hits the ground. It hovers there for less than a second. Then it finishes falling, and fails to break.

"Lucky," she exhales. "I really hate cleaning broken dishes like that."

Evelyn crouches down to pick it up! "Phew." She places the mug down on the side and frowns. "Sorry, I'm not usually this much a klutz."

Theo is standing by the island in the kitchen when she looks back up. "… It's fine," he responds, frowning.

Sadde jumps, a little. "You should work on not being so silent," she remarks.

"Hm?" asks Evelyn, tilting her head. "– Oh, hi there." She turns to face him, smiling a little. "Sorry about, almost the mug."

"Yeah, like I said, no problem." He turns to Sadde. "Uh, can I have a word?"

To Evelyn again, he smiles and says, "Just a sec."

She blinks. "Um, sure. Be right back?" she tells Ev before following Theo.

When they're outside the kitchen, Theo asks, "Do you have any idea what that was?"

"...what?"