[I'll see it when I come home. I don't know when I'll be able to do pictures.]

[Mmhm. I love you.]

And in the store: "Good morning!"

[Love you too.]

"Good morning!"

"I hail from warmer parts of the country and have moved here just yesterday and would like to live to see another summer, and I saw that jacket there...."

"Well, the rack of that kind is over there, just figure out your size and I'll be happy to ring you up. There's matching boots!"

"Matching boots!"

[Matching boots?]

[You may get matching boots if you like.]

[Thank you!] He finds things his size and—[Should I buy more than one?]

[Coats? Why?]

[I'm not sure! Fashion? I am thoroughly lost at this whole 'exchanging money for apparel' thing I do not know how it works.]

[I'm the wrong person to go to for fashion advice! Will it not go with most things you like to wear? Is it not sufficiently unisex?]

[It is pretty unisex and I hear tell that black goes with everything?]

[I hear this too.]

[Then I guess this will be all!]

He pays for the coat.

And now he has another shopping bag.

And he makes his way back to Isabella's apartment.

It is apartment-shaped.

As expected, and no one mugged him, as, well, he's not sure whether to have expected that or not, not being from here and all.

He opens the laptop's box and—

—starts reading the manual.

And then he sets it up and creates an account on his computer and [Do you have emails or phone numbers of the people from school?]

[Yes. Anybody in particular?]

[You know, people I used to hang out with, Janet, Victor, Myeisha... I don't suppose you'd have Jackson's?]

[I actually do have an out of date phone number for him, it's amazing the cruft you pick up with an eidetic memory, but I wouldn't expect it to be the same.] She rattles off numbers and emails for the others.

He writes them down.

[Did he get better?]

[I didn't keep tabs on his mental health. I can tell you he didn't go back to kneeling at people, he was at graduation, and he wound up being friends with somebody who enrolled a little after you vanished.]

[Well that's promising.]

[And he still had the same collar at graduation, I remember that.]