"Y'all are slowly destroying it," Jamie joked. "But sometimes it helps."

"I'm pretty sure we could work that in somehow," he went on. "Make them all cool and whatnot. Have meetings when the various pantheons go nuts. That kind of thing."

Maddy laughed. "Same when I'm at school," she agreed. "There have been so many times I've had to bite my tongue and not just say whatever's popped into my head."