odin doesn’t quite comprehend it yet, but the Really Big Adventure is set to begin mere days from now which means that today is possibly maybe the last day he’ll get to play with his cousins – mitchel, jagger, ella, evelyn and ruby – at the same time and the same place for quite some time.

and certainly he doesn’t yet comprehend why today would be a little sad for his parents, even as they’re excited to start a New Beginning.