They were thinking about the built-in stasis charms in their ice cream cups and how grateful they were that they exist. They were grateful for a lot of things these days, but these stasis charms were currently the most relevant. It wasn’t that they didn’t like the taste or the texture or any other aspect of the treat – because all of those were as wonderful as they had been for the past fifty years with a brief intermission in the late nineties when the owner (often presumed dead until recently) fled the country to save himself, but even more so, his recipes – it was more that they had too many things nagging at their minds. Too many things they had been refusing to acknowledge or unravel for some time now. 