“Can we go already?” said Shania, sticking her head in the door.
“You just got here,” said Priya without looking up. She was lying on the floor shoulder-deep under the couch in her lab.
“Yes, and I’m hungry,” said Ziv, pushing into the room behind Shania. “What on earth are you doing down there?”
“You’re always hungry,” said Benny, crowding in behind him. It was a large room, but between the furniture, the assorted equipment, and now the quartet of friends, things were getting a little cramped. “The restaurant can wait five minutes.”
Priya gave the stick one more shove with the grabber tool she was holding and scrambled to her feet. “I’m just getting everything set up for my experiment. Want to see it run?”
“Are those chocolate truffles?” said Ziv. He reached one gangly arm toward the box.
“Those are for you,” said Priya, pushing his arm away with the grabber tool. “Have a
