not all who wander are lost

I’m not sure if I should be worried or not.

That depends, how afraid are you of needles?

Exams mainly. But I like learning everything I possibly can about the world. You should try it actually, it’s more beneficial than one might think.

I agree, I spent most of my childhood with my nose stuck in a book. So much that my parents actually tried to get me to do other things.

You know, I don’t know if you do want to hear this one. It involves fake blood, sex and I’m pretty sure I remember one of those hideous clown masks being there somewhere.

Now I know I want to hear it.

I think that’s quite popular, and it’s scary.

Scary?

That’s alright—I don’t mind. On the west side of town. It’s pretty quiet, or so far anyways.

New area?

I could definitely be a life coach, I’d have no problem making sure you sleep.

You could quit the coffeeshop and do it full-time, I'm sure you'd have a lot of clients.

Ah. What are you researching?

The history of lemon farming in Argentina, what do you think?

I understand that, Ellie. I know. But if we try to get everything done at once we’ll accomplish nothing. I never said we’d exclude everyone else, of course we can figure out how to get rings to the rest of the town too. 

Fine. 

Ellie…there are people in this town that matter a lot to me, too. I grew up here, I’ve watched the people I love live and die here. I think I might be in love with someone who isn’t in the group of people I just gave you. So please don’t think that I’m trying to say that the others don’t matter, or that I don’t care about them or think they’re unimportant. But right now I have to prioritize the targets and those of us who can help. After that’s been done, then we work on everyone else. The faster we move, the better. I’m not saying we need to wait days, alright? The second we’re done getting the rings spelled for the main groups, we get started on everyone who matters to us. I don’t want to make this call either…but I have to.

Adding sleeping to it might be a good idea.

You sound like a life coach.

Sounds like you should buy some ear-plugs to drown everything out.

Good advice, Andrew.

You’re looking at her. It was an auspicious occasion.

You read the dictionary on an auspicious occasion? What's the reasoning behind that?