"All those people with all those abilities, and not one of you has the power to fly?" Rosie teases, giving him a laughing, pointed look. "I'm terribly disappointed."

They'd talked a little about their families before, hanging out at school or when one of them had been over at the other's to work on something for French class, and there's something nice about this added bit of information. Rosie and her own brother had interests too separate from one another--whether by choice or circumstance, she didn't know--to have the kind of closeness it seemed Caleb and Alice had, but that had been the way of things at home, in her own time. He did the things boys did, and she took on more girlish pursuits, and that's how it ought to be.

"It sounds absolutely ridiculous," she says after a moment. "But a lot of fun."