"You could always try speaking nicely to it," Grace suggests as she approaches the box herself. She's not looking for anything in particular today, and is mostly there in hopes that she'll be able to find something nice for the baby. It's not that Alana doesn't already have a lot of tiny clothes, but both she and Mini are of the opinion that you can never have too many really.

She reaches into the box, pulls out a striped sock, and frowns at it.

"At least that's what someone told me, once. And she never had any trouble getting what she wanted out of it. I've never managed to make it work in quite the same way, but it's always worth a shot."