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After only a couple oftoward our kitchen Dad breathes out a sigh of relief

Josie strides in, wearing her coverall, a grin on her face "Hey, looks like we still have a house"

"Fortunately," my dad says "That’s handy, isn’t it? Otherwise I have no idea where I’d keepall our lives weren’t in danger during the raid; they have to If they didn’t pretend, the fear would be too h to match their bravado, but Ipan and spatula "Genuine scra up Last ones for a while, too, so enjoy"

"Can’t we trade for sos are so awful"

"Don’t be greedy, Josephine We receive more than most people as it is" Mo weirder than seeing her in aeach other, and the frying pan sizzles, Josie leans close toyou a break on the young-love-in-warti, but could you and Theo watch the decibel level? I need my sleep"

Oh,sex, no, no, no "Sorry"

Josie’s already ht up," Dad says, placingin front of us But the save me, it isn’t real coffee When I take a sip, the stuff’s so bitter I have to force myself to s

"Maybe you should cut down on coffee, Marguerite," Josie deadpans "You don’t see well lately"

Mom comes to the rescue--deliberately or not, I don’t care "Was it at least good flying this ?"

"Better believe it," Josie says As she keeps talking, I realize hter pilot

At first that see sister is the definition of a thrill seeker Surfing, snowboarding, zip-lining--if you have to sign a liability waiver before you do it, Josie thinks it’s fun No ed, et her adrenaline rush

"I wish someone would call us about the lab," Dad s

"Phone lines are probably down," Mom points out "They’ll send so about it"

She always says that, back home My dad answers like he always does: "I don’t worry because it’s useful I worry because I can’t help it"

Mom pats his shoulder "Just eat breakfast"

"Co about the war I want him to sit down and make bad jokes over our e when they all first started pretending we’d never been in any danger, but noish they’d go back to it

They don’t "We’ve got to s on her plate He’s talking to her, not me "We could do oing to help the war effort--we must build a prototype soon"

Mom nods "I know We’ll have to start tomorrow We’d be ordered to within the week in any case I doubt the generals would be willing to wait any longer"

"You can do it, Sophie," Dad says "We’ll make this happen It’s our last chance"

That’s when it hits e et Paul back any other way I can’t cure Theo