"It's good to me when I'm patient," Mathias says. Usually he's content with being patient, with waiting until something right comes along, but lately he's been feeling restless. Perhaps it's something that the box can pick up on, if the box is, in fact, capable of doing anything like that.

"And, yes, you might need that skirt if we're ever in danger of running out of... what did you call them? Construction cones?" He's never heard that expression exactly, but he knows it's mostly due to English being his second language. If pressed, he would have no idea what to refer to those cones as in English and so he'll gladly defer to Sookie's knowledge there. "For all of the highways we have built and all the construction that gets done around this place."