"I think it makes them happy to have things given them kindly."

Speaking particularly of children.

"I'm Derrica," she says, with a little smile. There's always some absurdity in the ways people meet officially within Riftwatch. It's rare it doesn't come on the heels of some kind of disaster, and this has been a stretch of them, one after another after another culminating in this wrench of a battle. "I was going to offer to take over, if you wanted."

But she doesn't have to. Derrica circles to the far side of the box, perches on one edge to readjust the folds of her sling.