"On an island full of stairs, the rickshaws are mostly just funny," Sparkle decided, grinning a bit. Anyway, it's small enough it's not like we can't walk everywhere any-whoa. Is that it?"

One of these days he was going to be able to finish a thought without diverting his attention mid-sentence like a dog noticing a squirrel.

"... Bit of a fixer-upper."