"Thanks," Penny replied, a smile breaking through her nervous expression. Again, she felt the eerie sensation that she was more complete with Gen by her side, as though they were halves of the same whole, that somehow when she was there she could share some of the courage and tenacity. Penny linked her arm with Gen's as she gathered herself up to go face the frightful scene that was their family.
Genevieve's reassuring words did help, a reminder that at least one of them was firmly in her corner, always. "I know it will be," Penny replied because now they had proven that together they could make things happen. "Shall we?" she asked and then began moving toward the party they had abandoned not once but twice.