"Do you have a stove? One of those coal burning ones or those wood burning? Mom's talking about moving ours into the cabin this summer." She knew that Melody didn't much care for the bunker, even if Vesper had learned to tolerate it. It was among the safest places in the Locks. Few people knew about it. As for the cabin, it had been made for summer during the most of 2014 and some of 2015. Vesper's mother was not moving into the trees.
"Well, we need to get more sugar. We're running out of white. Mom might come with us, I think. Maybe Olivia, too." As she talked, Vesper quietly slid out something from her bag and handed it to Melody. "Well, if it's on purpose, this might give you courage." In Melody's hand were soft rabbit gloves, the fur on the inside and the leather on the outside. "So this is super like? As in butterflies in the stomach like?"