172 It's Hard Being This Popular

Abby ended up stuck at the playground for another few hours but children slowly trickled away as time went by. The older ones who had managed to get away from their jobs long enough to participate in play practice had to go back to work eventually.

Some of the younger ones got tired or needed to do chores at home. By dinnertime the only ones left were Adam, Hagan, Iida, and Lirael's four children under the age of six.

Keeping an eye on that many children by herself had been exhausting, though for a while some of the older kids watched out for their younger siblings and that helped. Mountain heat had nothing on Arizona but she had been outside for hours and would kill for an ice cream cone.