(Author's Note: This episode was previously, for the most part, written by DocLock, with some minor errors fixed.)
Derek walked over to the orb, trying to grab it out of the air, but the orb kept bouncing out of his reach.
"Com-ere, you sonofa ..." he said to himself in irritation, as John heard someone coming up the stairs. A thunk-lift sound with each step. He looked out to see a woman with a crutch, trying to make her way up the stairs.
"John, you needed my help right? You were super vague when you mentioned you had fixed something and wanted to show it off," the woman said. She had a coffee flask clipped to her side and was wearing jeans and boots with a white blouse. Her long red hair flowed down to around her shoulders and she was looking quizically at him. "Soooo, you gonna just stare at me like a weirdo or are we going in? You know I can't stay long."
John was slightly regretting not telling the orb to give him the information about what changes it made to these people to make them his friends and what memories they assumed he shared. This was complicating things.
