Several weeks later Jim sees Grace again as she finishes a round of loading books. He offers to walk her back to the storage house and she accepts. They walk along the dock side together talking. Jim talks enthusiastically to Grace about solar surfing and it turns out she is already an experienced solar surfer herself.

"Yes I used to solar surf myself when I was younger but this was all some time ago."

"Would you ever do it again?" Jim asks her.

"Of course, that is if I had the time and the place. You couldn't do it here you're not allowed and even though I've gone from place to place and have had time of my own, I just haven't solar surfed at all."

"You should try do it again some time!" Jim tells her trying to sound positive.

"I really should. Maybe my next job will be somewhere else, somewhere a bit freer and I'll be able to solar surf in my spare time. But I wouldn't want to go too far away from here."

"Oh really and why is that?"

"Oh I don't know" Grace says quickly trying to cover up her true meaning for wanting to stay (she wants to see Jim.) "I guess I just hope I can get hired."

"You starting to believe that now?" asks Jim smiling at her.

"I don't know, I can dream can't I?"

The two of them laugh together. Grace now seems a lot happier than when they first met. They reach the store house and stop.

"Well I guess this is me" says Grace.

"Yeah"

They both stand there, nether of them wanting to leave.

"Would you like to come in, look around?" Grace finally asks.

"Sure, sure I would" replies Jim (not overly fussed about seeing the store house just wanting to be with Grace.)

"Okay then" says Grace as she pushes open the door a small smile on her lips.

She steps in and Jim follows her into what must be the biggest warehouse he has ever seen, full of towers of packaged up books, ready to be shipped out.

"Wow" is Jim's first reaction.

"It's quite something at first sight, isn't it?"

"It sure is."

"It gets rather boring after a while though, epically when you're coming back here every hour or so."

They quietly wonder through the passages made by the stacks of books until they decide to turn around and head back to the door they came through. They walk out and Grace shuts the door behind them. The air now feels cooler as night closes in around them.

"I'd better be getting home" Jim tells Grace.

"Yeah" says Grace rubbing the back of her neck "I could do with some sleep."

"See you soon though" Jim gives her a warming smile.

"Okay" Grace returns a broader smile.

"See ya."

"Bye."