Mindy grinned. "Hey, I expect you to get tons better, because if you don't give me a good enough fight I'm going to have to take all your territory away from you!"

She was joking-mostly. "Anyway, that's not going to be for awhile, so who cares? Let's enjoy this time, you and me."

Mindy was already hiking up a few hills pretty easily, dirty and smudged but grinning all the way.