The bedrooms weren't something Em needed, or wanted, to be thinking about, but the kitchen being John's domain was still a strange enough idea for her the rest was inconsequential.

"This is so weird," she said, half to herself, before she realized how it might sound. "Not the house. It's lovely. Just... cognitive dissonance isn't really the right word, but I don't know what would be. I try not to expect people or things to be like the world I'm from, but the differences still throw me sometimes."