It took roughly twenty minutes, three cups of tea, and one very enthusiastic interruption from Alyssa demonstrating her new reach by retrieving a teapot from a shelf Eva couldn't reach without standing on a chair, before anyone actually sat down to hear the full story properly.
"Start from the beginning," Claire said, settling into the chair across from Aaron with the particular stillness she got when she intended to absorb every detail rather than just the highlights. "All of it. Don't summarize the parts you think don't matter."
"That's going to take a while."
"We have time."
