Alas, Break is nigh impossible to sneak up on even without his omen handy, so he fails to give a satisfying jump at Dipper's sudden presence. This is fine. Break is still a Victorian, and so Dipper is rewarded in other ways.

"Hah?" he asks, very seriously. "Up where?"

Baltus had been trotting around the kitchen with a large turnip in his mouth, which has been granted to him for chewing. Similarly befuddled, he plonks his noodle bum down next to them and aims his snoot towards the ceiling. Is something interesting up there in the rafters? ...ew, cobwebby.