Ahhh, focused attention and contact and teasing! And... Tim feigns a duck, but somehow never escapes the hand at all, and the laughter and body language are happy and light.

Tim's gotten more than one interpersonal relationship wound so tightly that he's afraid something is going to snap. But if he can wheedle a noogie out of Dick this fast, they're good. (Thank god they're good.)

"I think they could do it. There's a lot of subtle shading patterns in the clothes. Tone-on-tone vines and knots. I think you better ask them now if you're going to get one before they send us after the entire fantasy wing of the library," Tim says. "I read Die unendliche Geschichte in the original German, but I never thought that could ever come in useful."