Oh, sure, he thought that now....but have your grampa and brother leave you on one planetoid of face-hugging aliens that made you their god-empress because of a toothpick once, and it became a whole thing.

But the observation made Summer grin a little.

"No getting anything past you, apparently!" she said. "I mean, technically, we are going to the mainland, but not, like, juuuuust the main mainland?"

She was going to just end up telling him in trying to explain it at this point, wasn't she?