"Now?"

<Yes.>

She picks up Maurice very gently. "I'll be back for you shortly, everything will be fine," she tells Maurice's mothers.

"So she says," says Mary through the tears, glaring at Morri.

And Zaneta is already at the hospital.

Morri meets Mary's gaze impassively.

"...Oh, what's the point? You didn't offer any explanation on the beach, why should you now?"

"I'm sorry Mrs. Maurice's Mummy. Morri's just...shy."

<You are mistaken.>

"She also likes saying that."

<I say this when it is true.>

"Just so you know, Morri does not like people being Mistaken, and will hang them upside down. She is just trying to help."

That is mostly correct, yes.

"She likes me, and Maurice, and being near me and Maurice, and floating, and singing, and not being Mistaken."

Also mostly correct.

"Yay, not Mistaken!"

<Indeed not.>

"She uses big words because she's older."

<I do not use words.>

"Oh. So I know more big words!"

<Yes.>

He does not know what dancing is, but he does so.

Maurice's mothers just look on in bafflement.