"No!"

Eefa inspects Shahns face carefully in the photo to see if it agrees.

Shahn is not obviously reacting to being kissed on the head.

"Doesn't look so bad for Shahn, being with a family." she admits, a bit grudgingly.

"We think it's better than being here, but Shahn took a while to be ready to have a family."

"Why's it better than here?"

"A family can change more about how it works to suit the kids in it, and everybody can get more attached to each other because they're going to stay a family forever."

Eefa shivers at the concept of being attached forever.

"Families also sometimes come with brothers and sisters, though usually not adoptive families."

Blank stare.

"Like Timio and Anina, they were sisters."

She has heard of the concept but doesn't really understand it, what adoption would have to do with it, or why it matters.

Well, if she doesn't ask any questions she won't get any answers.

She's evidently fine with that.

They will resume their routine. Mikko starts putting on a kids' movie toward the tail end of lunch every day.

Eefa will watch them for clues.

This one is about a little yellow who goes on a hot air balloon adventure to a magical city in the clouds.

Does the little yellow get hurt on the adventure? Eefa hopes not.

The little yellow gets scared a few times - the hot air balloon has a technical difficulty she has to solve before she crashes, and there's some scary people in the magical city - but is never hurt.

Very skilled little yellow! Eefa is proud of her.

The movie has a happy ending with cheerful music!

Eefa is upset at how the music is trying to make her feel a way.

It's not a very long denouement. The movie is over.

Can the oranges get her to play board games? They're going to start with a simple co-op one with hopping pegs around a track.

Hrm. Fine, she is really rather bored.

They can cooperate on hopping their pegs, then! They lose the first time by running out of cards before they get to the end but they win the second time.