"Oh you will," Verity said with a wry smile. "A kid, a girl, and who knows what else."

Verity hadn't been here a full year yet, so even she couldn't say what the island could pull when it felt like it.

"I'm not really reporting, I guess?" she said. "More like sending home notes every so often. About the teal deer, the alots, even the gremlins." Not that Verity had gotten too close to those, mind. "My dad keeps a field guide that the family has been updating for years. My notes go in there."