Amber, on the other hand, made a soft noise and burrowed in between her parents a little more thoroughly; there was a world out there where they'd never met each other, and to her that was really distressing.

"Did she get that weird look on her face that people do when you try to explain this place to them and it just makes no sense?" asked Steph, who was honestly just glad to know that some version of Vi might never have come here but turned out all right in the end anyway.