It was a dire situation.

The kind of scenario where even making light-hearted jokes felt out of place—a full-blown emergency.

It was so severe that even Tesseract, normally calm and composed, couldn’t sit still and seemed fidgety. This was not something that could be ignored.

“ Hmm? Mama, did you call me? ”

Ah, sorry. Not for anything in particular.
Anyway, there are some things that little ones don’t need to understand!

I poked Tesseract a couple of times with telekinesis to play for a bit, then settled back into the cramped closet, resuming my somber mood.

Let’s think. …