Their first day together is spent like it's not their first day together at all. Alice needs to go to the grocery store. Sara and Millie tag along. Neither Jacob nor Princess Tana are mentioned. The simplicity of the trip, of guarding the cart and Millie while Alice bustles around getting vegetables and fruit and cereal and, when she thinks no one is looking, cookies, begins healing a wound that she didn't even know existed.

"Do you want some help taking this back to your apartment?" she asks, thrusting her hands into her pockets.