After her race with Spirit, Maya had quit racing, much to young Eva's relief. She had spent her time being a house wife and looking after Eva while Don worked. She had a few accidents, involving a car crash, someone breaking into the house and nearly killing her, to a mugging. Maya never let any of it get her down, but she did become more careful and took self-defense classes, as well as first-aid classes. Once Eva started school she took more classes, not content with the thought of staying home all day and cleaning. And slowly the 'accidents', which Eva was sure was Canaletto, stopped all together.

When Eva was 7 Don held a race to find a new pilot for his company. A young Rick Thunderbolt entered the competition and with some advice from Maya, won. He became Don's new racer and continued to win. A few years later he and Don had a falling out and Rick went to a different company, but he still called Eva every once in a while. Eva was glad when she had met Rick, she had always wondered what he was like when he was younger, and was ecstatic when Rick took a liking to her and called her his little sister, along with 'little mouse'. Eva was happy to think that some things didn't change.

Shortly after the encounter with Rick, Maya gave birth to a baby girl. Maya and Don didn't know what to name her, nothing sounded right to them. Eva, then 8, took one look at her new baby sister and knew the perfect name. Maya and Don agreed that 'Molly' was the perfect name.

Along the years, with each passing day, Eva took up mechanics and did a little racing, with just roller skates, a skateboard and foot races, nothing to extreme and the worst thing she ever got was a broken leg. The marks on her cheeks even turned into a line and a star when she was ten. Her father smiled at how much she reminded him of her Maya, and Maya thought the star looked good on her cheek. Sometimes, when Eva woke up, she was unable to tell if it was all a dream or not, but she was always glad when she came downstairs and found her mother cooking, and Molly sitting at the table coloring. After a good pinch of course.

And so, as the years went by, Eva grew up, gaining new hobbies and trying to make things right. But as days turned into months, and months turned into years, she was being filled with dread at the thought of what was to come, the Great Race of Oban and, more importantly, Canaletto.