"Excellent! I'll get my things from my room and I'll be right with you!" His feet barely made any noise on the floor when he ran to the back of the house.

Mimi was in his room, taking a nap on his bed. Careful not to wake her, he picked up his satchel where he carried his tools and put an engineering book. He heaved it over his shoulder and picked up a few of the small metal scraps he retrieved from the Magitek facility, leaving the parts that he was working on the day before on his desk.

He returned to the front room several minutes later. "Sorry to keep you waiting," he said. He let the metal fall out of his arms and onto the coffee table gently.