"That's better than what Dawn would say," Brenda noted. She stepped over to the sink to scrub her hands clean, then looked back at Ivy as she was drying them. "No fire until you're an adult is a good idea, even if it does make your mom seem like a buzzkill. For one thing, child services can't be called on your mom once you're an adult. Not," she added instantly, "that I'm going to. Like I said, I have kids. Plenty of doctors and nurses would, though." There was also the minor detail about not being able to know when-and-where Ivy was from that threw matters off.