“A nap sounds nice,” she concedes without reluctance. Aside from the rapid onset, her fatigue feels like any other time she has worn herself out expending her energy running and playing, so that her mother is calm about it makes it easy to accept. Mentally trying to encourage herself to rouse and stand, her efforts cut short as her mother packs her along instead. Being small for her age certainly has some advantages, and Nel readily reaches to hold onto her mother with her arms to make the task easier.

“Thanks, Mum,” she says as she rests her head to her mother’s shoulder lightly on the way inside. “I think I’ll get better at it if I keep practicing. It’s already loads easier.”