"Did you use to be in the circus?"

"What word is a circus," they ask into the grass.

"It's where people do tricks like that, and animals do too, and it's a show."

"I think no."

"Maybe you were in the circus, and then you forgot, and now you need an emergency vacation about it," says astro-kid.

"There is not forgot-space for a circus in me."

Musician kid is in stitches over this sentence.

"Where'd you learn to do all that stuff then?" asks astro-kid.

"This one I where-is-your-word-for from a friend Binla."

"Is Binla in the circus?"

Shrug.  (Their whole body bobs instead of just the shoulders, from this position.)

"Summer summer summer summer," murmurs musician kid, "summer summer..."

Eventually Lorn somersaults into a crossed-legs sitting position.  "Where is an emergency vacation."

"My auntie went to the Four Hills Resort," says astro-kid.

"Where is the Four Hills Resort?"

"It's up in the hills!"

Lornell checks for hills with ¿buildings? in them visible from where they're sitting.

There are some hills thataway, with a few buildings between the trees.

They point at one of the buildings.  "Four Hills Resort?"

"...that's just somebody's house, I think."

"Please where is the Four Hills Resort."  They stand up.

"I don't know how to go there," scoffs astro-kid.

". . . Thank you, sorry, goodbye.  You may all live nice lifes."

"Lifes," says musician kid, "lifes lifes. Summer summer lifes lifes."

Cute kids.  Maybe once this all gets sorted out Lorn'll come see them again.

In the meantime they run for the hills.  If anyone they pass has the vibes of being particularly interruptable or official or willing to explain things, they'll stop; otherwise they'll just head up there and start looking around.

Phenomena passed include:

- somebody giving out free samples of six flavors of beverage
- a dog-walker with 8 dogs in tow
- a streetsweeping truck, preceded by a team of dogs that are wielding pooper-scooper devices and picking up trash in the road ahead of it
- a festival of some kind in a large town square, with henna painting, hair braiding, fudge and fruit and beignets, dancing to live music, a bouncy castle, and children chalking the whole area of pavement
- somebody putting up signs advertising her ability to train corvids to do various things