"You mean Carlsbad Caverns?" She looks down at the teeth marks in her apple. "It's a national park. Was."

And she gives him another small smile, not taking her hand away from him. "I've never actually been. Maybe you should take me."

It'd be pretty fitting. He's already taken her to so many places she's never been.

Later she'll have to ask what some of the other stories his mom told him were about.

"I bet Cooksfield is just as happening a place as ever." She grins.

And the talk of sunsets makes her think of some conversation they had months ago about sunsets and the moon.

In my day, he'd said, it looks like a giant came by and took a bite out of it...

She'd liked that.