Mildmay thought for a moment. Kids didn't see the world same as adults did, and kids that'd had easy lives not the same as kept-thieves and pack kids. When he'd been Annie's age... He wasn't gonna think about that, never mind it was when he'd learned some of the things he was teaching her for play.

"Let's try it the other way round. My hair's gonna make me easy to see same as yours. And long as it'll take me, you'll sure as... you'll know where I am, even if I wasn't telling you I'm gonna take cover in the trench, let you try to snowball me." Compact for a grown man, he was still a bigger target than she would be. It'd show off better what he meant about taking cover not being the same as hiding.