Just exceedingly more deflated.

Lennox’s indigo hair was frizzy and sticking out in every direction because she couldn’t seem to keep herself from pulling and tugging at the neon strands. Savannah’s blue and white hair was braided in about a hundred teeny-tiny braids all around her head. None of them were tied off at the ends so they were starting to unravel, which might have been intentional so she could keep braiding. I got the impression she needed to do something with her hands while thinking.

At the other end of the table, Lily, Easton, and Seamus were teaching sign language to Royce, Willow, and Thiago. Warner and Cooper were sitting about halfway down the table watching the lesson quietly like they were trying to learn but were too lazy to get up and move down there. They were doing all the hand movements though. Kessler and Tim sat on opposite couches reading newspapers. Bentley sat on the same couch as his uncle but at the other end flipping through television channels too fast for him to have been able to see anything. I’d tried to figure out what he was doing until I noticed his golden eyes kept flashing with neon-orange crescent moons, and that was too much nope for me to handle at the moment.

Constance was on the floor with two adorable little blonde girls. They were using the coffee table to string crystals onto chains. From what I’d gathered, they were making necklaces for everyone. That made me smile. It wasn’t any different than what I was doing, or what I was trying to do: potions that everyone needed. They made crystal necklaces everyone needed. Daniel sat on the floor next to his little family with his laptop, but the scowl on his face at whatever he saw was also a nope for me. Kenneth, Landreia, Mei-Ling, and Tai were on the other side of the room talking softly, but I knew by my best friend’s face that they were scheming. Yet I also didn’t want to know that. My mind was a little too overcooked at the moment to put anything else in it.