"You're going to clank when you move if you're carrying all of that," Nico said to Raph, hiding a smile at the idea of building a sneaker fort -- which then turned into a grimace as she remembered that the guy who'd built a sneaker fort and then donated the shoes to charity had been enslaved by his government and made to do their dirty work. She tried to shake it off.

"Are you even going to be able to use all of that?"

She hadn't brought up their near-kiss. She wasn't planning on bringing up their near-kiss. She'd given it a lot of thought, and actually talking about it still seemed like a bad idea. Pretending that not talking about it wasn't going to blow up in her face somehow in the future definitely seemed like the way to go.