"They won't notice. You wouldn't have even noticed," retorts Aglet defiantly. Really, she ought to look at it as him making the place more livable for any other borrowers unfortunate enough to drop through the rift and find themselves in need of ROMAC's assistance...never mind how unlikely it is that she'll get a borrower colony started in her flat. He's not about to tell her what he was doing to the cabinet a while ago, either.

Turning to look at Bee -- and wow, it's hard to spot her for a second even though she isn't hiding; being this big really does make you blind -- he nods, though he keeps his hands tucked into his armpits for the moment. "I just have to touch you," he says, embarrassed. "Really, I'm sorry about this, I haven't done it on accident in a long time."