"Okay, let's just forget about the pen thing!" Kennedy exclaimed. Backpedal, Kennedy. Backpedal like the wind! "It was a totally boring white cast, and yeah, I made everybody write on it."

She'd also threatened to hit a couple of hapless kids over the head with it if they didn't sign her cast, but she was starting to get the idea that telling these things to impressionable youngsters was of the bad.

"The slide, though-- it was one of the cool spirally ones." She grinned at him. "It was blue and yellow."