Three pies really is going hard enough to manage, balancing and running, so the fourth is out. Her arms are only so big, but once she figures that out she scouts around for what else is there, because she can set them down and get them when the posse is ready to make its retreat to safer grounds.

Marian picked up more of the cookies and chocolate bars behind Noriko and Dixie, before scavenging some of the fruit from a bowl on the counter. Oranges and apples, pears, and some grapes. Some people liked that kind of stuff, too, right?