Pepper wondered if one round of applause would be enough to satisfy Tony’s ego, but she also knew better than to actually ask that out loud. More important at this moment was to take her own cues from Susanna: looking afraid when the crisis of rainbow crystals was mentioned, then hopeful as the names of their valiant heroes came up. She’d learned long ago that the storyteller wasn’t the only one who had a role to play when it came to tea parties and bedtime stories.