"Good boy." Kiss. And out to the bagel place across the street and she gets them both bagels. She has to eat hers pretty briskly; gotta catch a train.

That's alright, still a few minutes more time than he'd've gotten if he'd stayed in bed.

"Have a lovely day. I'll be on and off pingability, keep trying if you need me and I don't answer right away." Kiss. "Here's my key and my card for purchases, I expect you home and ready to let me in when it's time until I can get you your own key. I love you."

Kiss! "I love you too, ma'am, have a good day!"

And she ruffles his hair and descends into the subway.

And he returns to the apartment and brushes his teeth and sleeps for another couple of hours, because that is not a luxury he has had in a while—try going to bed and waking up on schedules other than the sun's when you live in the wilderness.

He then takes a shower (another luxury) and puts clothes on and makes his way out.

[Good morning again, ma'am!]

[Did you go back to sleep?]

[Yeah. Sleeping in is something I haven't done much in my life.]

[It's cozy!]

[It is!] Down goes the elevator. [How's your morning going?]

[Nothing too exciting. Various precogging I'm not allowed to discuss.]

[Right, classified. Can you at least discuss it in broad terms, like something for the NSA, or related to the stock market, or...?]

[Nope, sorry.]

[Oh well.] Out he goes. [Now to find my way around New York to purchase a laptop.]

[If you get lost find an intersection and tell me where you are and I'll give you directions.]

[My wilderness survival skills will surely help me find my way here.]

[Sure they will.]

[Do you have suggestions about the best slash closest slash whatever place to buy a decent laptop?]

[You want a Best Buy or an Apple store?]

[Best Buy.]

So she gives him directions for how to take the subway to a Best Buy.

And he makes his way to the subway, checks a map, and starts following the directions.

[See, nothing like two years starving when you're ten and another year all alone on another planet when you're seventeen to teach you how to read maps properly.]

[All the numerous maps available in those situations.]

[Fuzz-fuzzes are very good mappers, hadn't I mentioned?]

[Hadn't come up.]