"Maybe everyone's waiting for the other shoe to drop." Though after this year, they were probably on their fifth or sixth shoe, at least. "After all, the tower popped up, the ocean showed up, and...nothing."

It could be just growing pains - that was a theory one of the scientists in the Diamonds had tossed up - but it seemed a little anticlimactic.

Her hand rested on his shoulder and she looked up at him with raised brows. "Maybe we'll be lucky and the rain will fall while we're in Italy."