Astrid shrugged. "It helped pass the time, and the challenge was kind of fun, restricted by what was available." She gained a faint ghost of a smile. "I got more leeway when my mom was pissed at her bosses and she'd let me dig in with abandon to piss them off. Luckily for me, her bosses pissed her off a lot."

It would honestly be a surprise that Ingrid had lasted so long if it weren't for the fact that one of them had the hots for her.