Alice shook her head. "Oh, no! I mean. I'd like to stay with you most of the time. But if I could still come here every now and again, it would be nice." She winced, reaching up to smack herself with the flat of her palm in the head. "Can I still stay with you? Or did I ruin that? I'm ready to go right now."
The girl looked around the room, trying to remember if there was anything important she was forgetting. "I'll be good. And I'll try really hard to remember all of the rules and things. Maybe you could tattoo them on me?"