"It will look more like an entire apartment complex or something."

"Little restaurants on the ground floor. Lounge with pinball machines. Rooftop garden, or does that start to count as not being in the box-cum-complex anymore?"

He snickers. "Yes, each room gets its own cool thing so everyone who ventures out of their room gets a pleasant surprise. I guess the rooftop garden would count as partially not in the box, but some people can take it, I think. That's probably a preparation to help anyone that would like to get out of the box but isn't quite ready, yet."

"And when they've gotten used to the garden they can stretch their metaphorical wings."

"Yup! Then off they go, to decorate their own boxes, and my job is done," he laughs.

Bella laughs. "Well, that sounds pretty straightforward. Get on that, what are you waiting for?"

"What's a high school diploma going to do for you on the box decoration front?"

"Mostly gets people to take me more seriously and not say 'Oh you are in high school, you are automatically wrong. About everything.'"

"Yeah, that's annoying, isn't it?"

"Very. But I can be patient, so it's all right. Kind of."

"I'm not patient at all."

"Can't blame you. It does get quite annoying, being patient."

"...If you're annoyed by being patient, by what definition are you patient?"

"Not letting the annoyance get to me."

"Oh, then by that definition I'm patient too. I'm good at managing my annoyance whenever it would only be in the way."

"See, there you go. That's the spirit."

"But I don't consider myself patient because when I'm making plans I heavily negatively weight having to wait a lot."

He snorts with laughter. "I don't, if I get what I want in the end, I don't mind waiting a while for it."

"Well, no plan is a hundred percent guaranteed. Trying the ones that fail fast first is more efficient."

"True. Still, some plans can only be implemented once and if you mess them up, you're just doomed. So I'll wait to improve the odds for those."

"Yeah, I'd make the same call in that case."