"Thank you. I hope you have a good day too."

Her day is almost definitely not going to be beautiful and fascinating. She will count herself lucky if she isn't discovered and killed. Really the bad outcome here is being discovered and killed before she can interfere with a team coming to recover Maitimo and kill everyone else in the apartment to prevent witnesses, or something else similarly cartoonishly evil. This is maybe not a safe thing to be thinking about with psychic tiny children around.

She's so tired.

She takes a shower and makes herself presentable and puts little lunches together in little brown paper bags, with names on them. Before she leaves, she wakes up Connor and tells him that Maitimo is from another dimension and she doesn't have time to discuss whether this belief makes her crazy right now and he needs to be kept out of the sort of trouble that you might expect tiny children from other dimensions to get themselves into.

"Maitimo, while I'm gone I need you to listen to Connor, OK? Not Kate and not great-grandma and not Zana. You listen to Connor. You understand?"

"Yes." If people are coming to kill us maybe we should go some other place? 

People are probably not coming to kill you. I think - probably nobody even knows you're alive, and if we leave town we will definitely be in trouble if we weren't already. It's just - a bad situation.

Why would we be in trouble if we left town?

Wolfram & Hart doesn't like it when people leave.

That seems like a problem for the plan where we get a farm.

Yeah, it's kind of complicated. You need to learn a bunch of stuff either way, though.

I'll listen to Connor.

Thank you. 

"I gotta go to work now, guys. Everybody be good."

"So," says Connor, climbing down from the top bunk bed. "Do you... know why you're at our house."

"Karen is scared that the place she works will -" what's the word for making someone's body stop working on purpose because you want them to go to Mandos -

"- uh."

- OK, you're not an alien, but I see why somebody might conclude this. I don't know what Mandos is?

"Mandos makes new bodies for people if theirs got broken."

"Are you talking about a hospital...?"

"I don't know what that is."

"The place you go if you get really sick or hurt. With doctors and stuff."

"If you get hurt you go to Lórien. You go to Mandos if - I know you have the concept, Karen thinks about it all the time, but I didn't get the word from Zana and it's hard to get actual words from listening to people think if they're not talking."

"Well, I dunno."

He can just send some of what Karen was thinking about then.

Aaah he doesn't want Karen thoughts in his head! It's bad enough when they're in her head!

"Don't do that! That's... weird."

"Sorry."

"I guess it sounds like she's scared of dying, or something."

He nods seriously. "I think that Karen was scared I would dying if I stayed at where she worked, so she brought me home, but now she is still scared and also sad that I don't like it here, so I don't know if it made anything better, but I'm going to buy a farm and then things will be better, but she's not allowed to leave her job and come live on my farm so we have to fix that too."

"You can't buy a farm. You're, like, four."

"Zana thought that I could learn to be good at making things and then sell the things I make on the computer and then get money. I am not good at anything but I am going to work very hard on it."