1062 Dinner Plans

Mary led them all to the nearest of the large dining rooms, where Dave, Mollie and Max's younger siblings were waiting along with a dozen of the children of the dignitaries that had come to greet them.

"So, you got roped into babysitting, did you?" Max laughed as he pulled his old friend into a hug.

"All the time. We got the outgoing children, so they just pull more and more little people to us. But these ones are a joy to be around, all well-behaved." Dave agreed.

Dave deftly caught a foam dart before it could hit one of the other guests, and the Envoys chuckled. His standards for well-behaved basically ended at not shouting, crying or bleeding. Beyond that, they were considered well-behaved until he had to fix something or clean up a mess.