She sighed. "It was a long shot. People keep asking me what a Spark is, and it would be so much easier if I could hand them a Heterodye Boys story and just let them read it. I'd tell one myself, but my adoptive parents didn't like me reading them, and then when I was kidnapped, Gil let me see a few of his secret ones... Theo used to tell some of the stories, and at the circus we performed some, but..."

She shook her head. "My knowledge of the stories is enough for me to know them," but not to know her parents, all four of them, who were in the stories, "but not enough for me to tell."

Also, she was pretty sure Theo made up half the ones he told.