"I think the reasoning was that there were too many variables," Rae is giggling into her tea, terribly amused at Autor's enthusiastic loquaciousness while tipsy. "We didn't exactly set up any particular tests of... balance, decision-making, and so on, beforehand."

"How have you been, Bonnie?" She hadn't seen Bonnie since... well, since she was making that wedding cake for the wedding that didn't happen.