"I like dinosaurs and I don't know very much about spaceships."

"Preference for either?"

"Depends how cool spaceships are. Zana how cool are spaceships."

"Spaceships are BASICALLY THE COOLEST but dinosaurs are also really cool so it depends on the movie. Star Trek and Star Wars are good but 2001 is mostly boring even though it has a spaceship."

"Are there any movies with spaceships and dinosaurs?"

"I don't think so. There should be."

"Well maybe we can watch spaceships tonight but one of the good spaceships ones and then we can watch dinosaurs tomorrow since I have seen them before."

"OK!"

The first Star Wars movie is proooobably not going to traumatize any smols? Star Trek IV is probably better on that front but it does have decidedly fewer spaceships.

She'll just put in A New Hope and let everybody know that they can always stop the movie and play Uno if anybody thinks it's too scary.

It is not obvious that the tiny child is getting anything out of it but he does not seem scared.

OK, well, good enough. She snuggles Zana and watches the movie.

Movies are apparently a thing where pictures of people pretending to be other people flash very fast on a screen and tell a story. It's sort of like plays except since it's just lots of still pictures it's not quite as good. It is very violent but his parents would be okay with him watching it because they'd want to know how spaceships work.

He tries to giggle when Zana does but not every time as that'd probably be obvious.

Zana honestly cheers more than she laughs. Also she comments on everything everyone does. She is a very engaged movie viewer.

Cheering is okay too. He is not sure he has good commentary. The people are acting like they're scared and angry but he gets the sense you're not supposed to say that.

At the end of the movie they blow up the giant space station that destroys planets and probably lots more people die.

She sends them off to bed and tells them to sleep a normal amount this time.

He is in fact kinda tired.

Zana isn't that tired but she can PROBABLY sleep.

Good good good.

She's going to do errands and chores and stuff for several more hours before she curls up on the couch and has dreams that are the opposite of restful.

"Eru Ilúvatar," he says, kind of loudly in case last time God did not hear him and in Quenya because Karen should not, "We are going to try to fix everything and I guess we will succeed eventually since everything turns out to the greater glory of God eventually and I do not think poison rivers are to the greater glory of God so I guess we would be grateful for your help but I am not afraid. But I still do not know how to make Karen stop being sad and she doesn't want me to fix it so I still think that probably you have to fix it though I will try really hard to be worthy of you doing that in all ways including trying my best to fix it myself. 

I think that humans are like Elves in that they care when things happen and it would be good if this happened soon.

Also probably tell Aulë to tell my parents that I am learning English and spaceships and I did not practice my recitation or composition today but that is because it takes a long time to learn to spell in English and I may need to know it quickly so I can live somewhere nicer, and I think this is the decision they would have made also if they were here, and if they want to come here it would be good to have help and to see them."

In the morning she ponders the question of what she is going to do.

She could theoretically just keep Maitimo hidden in her house indefinitely, it's not like there are child police who come around if you have random unregistered children who have red hair even though everyone in your household is Asian (...probably), but it doesn't seem like this would be very good for him, and it means that she's going to spend the rest of her probably short life waiting for someone at Wolfram & Hart  to call her on it. 

She could move everybody out of the country. Somewhere far away. This probably means abandoning Kate and great-grandma and trying to raise three kids alone, and she's not actually very sure that Wolfram & Hart doesn't just sort of exist everywhere in creation anyway.

She could investigate methods of sending Maitimo home. She doesn't even know where to start with that. - or, well, she does, the obvious place to start is Wolfram & Hart's science department, but she doesn't know how to make very much headway without running an even higher chance of getting herself killed, and it's not like Maitimo is the only kid she has to think about providing for. 

She could seek help outside of Wolfram & Hart. She really really has no idea where to start with that, and it totally seems like the sort of thing that could also get her killed. Everyone she actually knows is either evil or dead or incompetent or -

- or.

She heads into the kids' room and closes the door behind her.

"Hey. Rise and shine. I am calling an emergency Tiu council meeting. Also Maitimo, you can be an honorary Tiu for this purpose."

Zana sleepily rolls out of bed, sits cross-legged on the floor, and looks attentively up at Karen.

Connor climbs down from the top bunk and sits beside her a moment later.

He does not open his eyes but he tries to otherwise look attentive.

She sits down with everybody else.

"OK! For those of you not aware, a day and a half ago, Maitimo was stolen from his home dimension by Wolfram & Hart's science team. At the moment, I think nobody noticed that he came through and they're not looking for him, but that could change at any time. Wolfram & Hart doesn't like people taking stuff from them, which means having him here is really dangerous for all of you. 

I've been operating under the assumption that there's nowhere we can move any of you to, but this isn't actually true. We have options. Our most obvious option is moving Connor and Zana to live with grandma and grandpa. It's not, like, super safe, if they decide they want to hurt you in particular, but I don't think there's a reason for them to do that, if there's no chance of you getting caught in the crossfire? And this still leaves me and Maitimo out in the cold, but I can't leave and Maitimo is the person Wolfram & Hart might want back in the first place. I think we should consider getting out the people we can get out."

"Grandma and Grandpa who we don't like?"