Epilogue: Five Minutes From Now. A Slightly Skewed View of the World

Emily and Alice sit on the living room floor with crayons in their hands and sheets of paper under their wrists. They draw pictures of the parents. Alice has them with orange hair and wide round eyes. Emily makes them with big feet and wings on their elbows. They ask the parents to turn sideways for a different view. Emily and Alice draw them again in profile, making them look exactly like penguins they have seen in pictures. Later the parents put the pictures up on the fridge and tell stories to Emily and Alice until they fall asleep.