There was something so tender about the way he held his son. Melinda didn’t know him, true, but she got the impression that this wasn’t a side he showed in public all that often. “You’re not putting me out,” she assured him with a smile, thinking of how she mostly had gone out today for the sole purpose of doing something – anything – away from the flat and the shop.
She could only imagine what it was like to be dealing with a fussy child like that, but she knew how she appreciated help or small gestures in situations where it was needed. “Oh, well, shrinking them is no problem at all,” she chuckled, taking the parcels as he handed them to her, and with a wave of her wand shrunk them to easily fit into one bag with room enough for more. “Do you have anywhere else you need to go?” she asked him, not returning the parcels to him just yet. “I’d be happy to help you out.”