Both Matt and Abby paused when Kate spoke, Abby in the process of smearing some ink across Matt's cheek as the younger tried to do the same to her. The pair disappeared quickly, Abby right on Matt's heels.<br/><br/>When quiet once more settled over the kitchen, Jasper watched Kate writing, copying what she did as carefully as he could. The ink was smudged, and what he wrote was kind of shaky, nothing like other writing he had seen, both Kate's and others.<br/><br/>Dropping his hand to the stained table, Jasper turned slightly to look to Kate. He pondered her question, thinking of what he knew. He recalled their mini lesson earlier, when Kate had sang the letters to him. He had only been asked to remember the first five so far and he repeated them slowly, hesitating after each one.<br/><br/>"A, B, C, D, and E." Jasper was pleased he had remembered this after everything that had happened between then and now.