She felt ecstatic knowing she'd made a friend. Friend? Acquaintance? It didn't matter, she thought, it was better than those Paixao frauds. She signalled to the clerk, but knowing him, he would take his sweet time doing all he could to ignore her. And now she had back-up. She wanted to laugh a little menical laugh that she thought would unsettle the Paixao people so terribly. But she didn't want to seem like a cackling witch to a new friend, acquaintance, thing...

"Japan... Nope, ain't heard of it before. So, I guess it's true, then. I ain't from this world either."

She smiled devillishly.

"But I'm sure you noticed that."

Looking him over, he really was sort of strange. I mean, he had wheels on his shoes. Come on. Even Kidd wasn't that random. But moving around... that would help pilferi—I mean, it would help to get around.

"So, what'cher name?"