Giggle.

Bounce. "I wonder what it'll be like."

"Space, or Battle School?"

"Battle School."

"Well, I'm going to have fun."

"Yes, but like, what kind of fun."

"I don't know yet!" he says, cheerfully.

"Then how do you know you'll have it?"

He just laughs.

She giggles.

He beams at her.

She grins back. "I like you!"

"I like you too! Let's be friends!"

"Okay!"

Beam.

Grin.

"So where're you from?"

"Thule!"

"Oh, cool. Thule has glaciers, right?"

He laughs. "Yes!"

"Canada has glaciers! I've never been far enough north to see one, but I've seen stuff they left behind."

"Glaciers are the best."

"The bogs that happen when they leave the right kind of gouges in the earth are pretty cool so it doesn't surprise me that the things that make them are cool."

"They're the prettiest geographic feature!"

"They're pretty and they leave cool stuff behind. Bogs have carnivorous plants!"

"Carnivorous plants are pretty cool," he acknowledges.