Well, it depended on what Sable wanted to do. Starving Adam's friends and neighbors wouldn't go over so well. But marketing dieting books and products on a reasonable scale probably wouldn't be interfered with. It was their choice if they decided to follow the bad advice.

Adam snorted as he came up with a random mental image of Famine at a local fair judging a pie-eating contest with a horrified expression on his thin face. The boy wondered vaguely if there was a personification of Gluttony and quickly shut off the part of his brain that tried to immediately give him the answer. He really didn't want to know.

"Won't last long, though, I 'spect. Have you been on holiday?" he asked politely.