Dawson sighed, unable to keep a sarcastic chuckle within her exasperated red cheeks, "So, we're back to square one then?" "Will you just hear me out for one minu-" Max moaned, his hands gesticulating wildly in front of his body. "One minute! One minute?" Dawson chortled. "Max, we've been at this for an hour already! I think it's stupid, and nothing you say is going to change that." "But," Max began to argue. "But nothing!" Dawson interjected. "It's a pipe dream!" "Rodney?" Max said, pleading for some kind of backup from the only other grown adult in the room. "Don't look at me," Rodney smiled wryly, before going back to the colouring book that he and George were happily filling in. "Karl?" "I can see the merits of both sides," Karl answered, with a similar smirk. "You guys are the

