She nodded once, a quick, decisive movement, smile sliding into place again, easy and open, "Decided then. For science." She headed back down the walkway, she had an easy, comfortable pace, the kind that could eat up distance without wearing herself out. It was something that she'd had some practice at, the kind of pace that people who walk everywhere settled into before long.

Bob had settled as well, still just a deflated blob on her shoulder, getting a few stares, but not as many turned heads as they tended to get when he was sitting up and interacting.