"I should try and get on better terms with them," he sighs. "I keep realizing how much they can do for us if we can work out how to ask them just right."

It isn't like he has a great reason for not trying. There have always been others more focused in communicating with and befriending them, is all, while he has been more focused on other projects. But the stars are coming back around to the summer sky and there is less that's new to learn about them other than continuing to follow the number that goes out each week. Building boats proved a waste of time -

But there's still that metal hull sitting at the scrapyard. Next time the ferry comes in he'll have to have a closer look at what it's made of. And he can ask Pluto, too, about the spirits in the lake. Since the market can come and go safely, obviously they know how to ward those creatures off.

Guess he's got a new project to work on.