[Are these also things Harrow is learning, because it sounds like the kind of thing she needs to explore - or: a lizard, really? He would like to meet the lizard, for sure.]

Are we talking brick-and-window breaking and entering, or 'call me if you need help picking a lock' breaking and entering? Or both.

[And he knows Gideon, and the way she bends just so to avoid a fracture, and so he doesn't press further to apologize. Like Paul, the degrees to which Gideon is Okay show themselves in stages, combining to make a complete picture in due time. She is not, notably, thousand-yard-staring into a teacup and mumbling about guilt, so he considers this all a very good sign.

So he snaps his fingers, a little drat!]

Knew I'd forgotten something. At this rate I should take the lot of them with me, to make up for lost time. Has he moved the bowl?