After finding the ringleader, who was casually, but lazily dressed, Vandal patiently allowed his sister to convince the man. He noticed Simon glance over at him a few times while contemplating Vi’s pleadings, but remained calm overall, awaiting the ringleader’s response. He could not help but chuckle in embarrassment, remembering the last time they wandered around in a city, as Simon brought up the furniture store, but quickly wiped the embarrassment from his face as his sister grabbed his shoulder.

“Okay! Okay! Sheesh!” he exclaimed, matching his sister’s excited pace. He adopted a smug smile and, after opening the door to the city outside, commented, “I think I know where the school is this time.” He pointed to the right and said, “gramps already showed us the way to the school this morning on the way here, remember?” He then walked over to the street corner and paused, watching cars pass by. He waited for a minute and asked his sister, “what do you think the school will look like on the inside?” He continued waiting as he spoke to her, but the cars would not stop passing by. Before his ego could object, Vandal asked, “uhh, I forgot, how do we get those people to stop for us?” as he looked over at Vi.

After she responded, his face flushed red slightly and he turned away, quickly interrupting her as he realized what the answer was, ashamed by its obviousness. He pressed the little button on the pole which held up the nearby signal lights and, after the white walking person appeared on the black box above the other side of the street, he noticed that the cars stopped. He also noticed an odd chirping sound, and looked around to find the source of it, but failed.

After realizing that Vi started crossing the street without him, he quickly caught up and stood beside her, commenting, “oh, sorry,” as he continued moving along. He could not help but look around as the two continued walking along the concrete path. The walls had interesting posters on them, the glass had amazing displays behind it, and the signs were all clean and nice-looking, although Vandal could only recognize a few of the signs. He pointed to the most familiar one and said, “that’s a food place which makes food really fast and cheap. We can probably get lunch there so that Simon doesn’t have to work as hard for us.”

After passing the second street light, Vandal turned left, because there was no way to continue straight along the road. He shepherded his sister back to his side as he did so, standing between her and a long line of rugged-looking men walking along the street-side of the sidewalk. After one more street light, they walked along the side of the road and noticed a park-like area with buildings within it to their right. “This has to be it,” Vandal declared, grinning excitedly at Vi, “it’s a bigger place than I thought.”