“She’s learning that relationships can have different names,” Hannah said.

“I don’t want her to think people are replaceable.”

“Neither do I.”

At the museum Sophie insisted Nathaniel see the model of Saturn before anything else.

She pulled him through the exhibit hall with the confidence of a child who knew her adults would follow.

Hannah watched them and felt a warm, unfamiliar relief.

It was not that one kind stranger had rescued them forever.

It was that their world had become wider.