He retrieves it and carries on playing with it.

The premier is fun, their costumes are adorable, some adults do appear tempted to give them free candy but none actually do, and -

Time passes.

Zeus is nine, ten, eleven, twelve and he goes down to the main compound and shakes hands with a secretary vampire.

He runs home in full fur, tongue lolling out of his mouth, and pushes the doorbell to Harley's house with his nose and sits back, wagging madly.