"Don't worry, Tim," Sophia said and gently reached over to pat his shoulder. "If something is broken it can be replaced. Besides, most of my stuff is meant to be played with. It's all action figures and replicas. You can mess with anything you like." Still she turned on the tv and flipped through the channels until she found The Mask playing one station. "Cool," she said with a grin. "I like Jim Carrey. The Mask good with you, Tim?"

She looked over to him to see how he was doing. He seemed extremely nervous, more so than he was at the mall. Sophia hoped that he might be able to relax and feel more at home. It would be nice, she thought, if he had a second place besides his own apartment where he felt comfortable and at ease.

Suddenly Sophia remembered something. "I was looking into those runes," she informed Tim as she started to dig into her gyro. "A lot of the symbols are similar to various alphabets of different languages, but none of them match exactly. I've had no luck with translating anything. Not a word."