[It's a near thing, really. The bustle of movement is a wonderful opportunity for the tenuous control they've achieved over the room to snap, particularly with the promise of something akin to freedom close at hand.
Horatio has a fairly tight grip on the back of one of the rowdier boy's shirts when his fellow babysitter turns back again, a certain tightness in his features that he can't quite exhale away.]
Would you start us off, perhaps?
[One of them ought be able to get away with playing--and clearly the children would enjoy it.]
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Horatio has a fairly tight grip on the back of one of the rowdier boy's shirts when his fellow babysitter turns back again, a certain tightness in his features that he can't quite exhale away.]
Would you start us off, perhaps?
[One of them ought be able to get away with playing--and clearly the children would enjoy it.]