She doesn't spare energy to call out after Barnaby, confronted in mass quantities as she is now by bouncing, kicking, biting teddy bears. Collette had an active imagination. She's thought of all those stuffed creatures and dolls coming to life and having adventures before, and sure, sometimes the nightmares of them coming after people she cared about, or walking away from her laughing. Those had been easy to drive away.

These bears weren't all that hard. It was the sheer numbers!

"This is crazy!" Why she finds herself grinning as she says this to no audience in particular is anyone's guess.

Collette takes off at a run, jumping up onto the first reasonable ledge she fines, pulling herself up and toward the lower stands. Ha! She was the woman right now!

And batting a bear off her head. No fair! How'd they even do that? "What, can you fly or something?!"