"It's amazing how many people aren't," Corbie observed wryly. Felix among them. He was almost made not to follow directions.

When she took a second slice, she eyed it a moment before folding it--tip up toward the crust--and taking a bite out of it. When she unfolded it again, the bite had left a circular-ish hole in the middle, the edges made up of teeth marks. She giggled.