"Help yourself, dear," Veronica smiles. "Dinner'll be in three hours."

"Thanks." She nibbles on a strawberry. "I like your house."

"I'm glad! The guest room doesn't have a bed right now but we have an air mattress for you, would you prefer that or the couch?"

"What's an air mattress? Is it like a water bed?"

"It's like a cross between a water bed and a balloon."

"Ooh. I want that one."

"Can do! Do you need anything besides the snacks?"

"Uh--I don't know."

"If you think of anything, you can tell me or Tabitha and we'll figure something out, okay?"

"Okay.

"...Can I have a book?"

"We don't have a lot of kids' books... I'll see what I can find."

"Thank you."

Veronica smiles at her and goes looking through the house's collection of books, eventually turning up The Graphic Novel History of Abigail Lydia Claremont and A Visual Fashion Dictionary and Home Gardening Tips and The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Ooh. She picks up the Abigail Lydia Claremont one. Who was Abigail Lydia Claremont?

Abigail Lydia Claremont was a woman who lived a long time ago and she was a magical girl! She founded the Church of Thaumatology.

Ooh. 

She settles down contentedly to read and alternate between nibbling nibbleables and petting the cat. 

The graphic novel is not intended for children but it doesn't actually illustrate the exact details of her marital problems with the husband she spends some time stuck with.

She figures they probably just didn't get along. She doesn't have any problems reading above her age level. 

Dinner, when it arrives, is fried polenta and pork medallions.

WHOAH THIS IS SO GOOD. OM NOM.

...they keep putting more on her plate till she slows down.

That will happen. Eventually. She might give herself a tummyache first. 

They don't have that many pork medallions and polenta squares.

Then they will successfully and unproblematically feed a Hongry Child.

Veronica starts cleaning up. Tabitha says, "Hi, Anna-Charlotte, I'm Veronica's wife Tabitha."