Ellever smiles as she tentatively opens the door of the store, still feeling like a fish out of water. How long that's going to last, she can't say. It isn't a problem she normally has. She walks right into abandoned houses with gusto.

"Oh, cool. I'd offer to help with that, but I don't know a thing about construction," she says, shaking her head slightly. "But it's good to know there are on-the-ball people here in... Beacon, right?"

That's what she's read, but it's the first time she's said it out loud.