I nodded solemnly.

“Those sound like good rules.”

We spent thirty minutes together.

Elias showed me how his train could travel along the raised edge of a sandbox.

Rose made me guess which hand held the purple leaf.

I guessed wrong all three times and she laughed loudly enough to make Hannah smile from her bench.

Then Elias asked, without looking up, “Why weren’t you there before?”

The air seemed to stop moving.