Merci, *Meg says, a trifle smugly.

The rat looks as if it were less well-behaved, it would be shaking a little rat fist. Idiot patrons.*

And, yeah, that's pretty much it, *she adds, a little wryly.* I mean - being a mother wasn't ever something I had in mind for the future, even before I died.

Cousins are good! I'm all in favor of cousins.