"It's nice to meet you, Molly."

Under normal circumstances, of course, Chloe would never just approach a random child she doesn't know and start making conversation. Not that her life has been "normal" in any way for the past several years, but this is a whole new level of weird right now, and she gets the feeling this girl is in kind of the same boat - feeling adrift, anyway.

"I could use some help with this scavenger hunt, if you want to," she continues, earnest. "Do you like going to the pumpkin patch?"