"Anyway, Susan," Annabelle continues, taking a large bite out of the quarter loaf of bread provided with her meal, and talks around it as she chews. "If you don't have any fun tonight, we can be sure to find you something interesting to do in the next stop over. But you'll have fun, I think. Bonfires are always so invigorating, I find; back where I lived, it was always too wet and too lonely for that sort of thing."

Annabelle watches Lauren as she chews, finding his behavior too amusing to feel bad for him.