"Oh... no, no. I meant the mouse." The enemy to Adia is anyone showing disapproval at her taking apart a computer mouse, and as she is always made nervous about that sort of thing, she takes another quick look around before grabbing the mouse and flipping it over to show its underside to Paladin.

"It's a mechanical mouse. See the rubber ball here?" With a practiced turn of her finger and thumb, she rotates the plastic ring at the base and pops it off, making the ball more visible. "Rolling the ball makes the arrow move because...." And then she pops out the rubber ball, revealing two small wheels within the hollow space. "The ball pushes against these wheels, and they send the signal to the computer."

"She was distraught over having her riddle solved," Adia explains, although she, too, seems dubious about that. "Well, it's just a story, anyway... a really messed-up story, now that I think about it. Oedipus had a lot of problems." Paladin's words are reassuring; Adia smiles modestly. "Well, I get a lot of practice meeting all sorts of people here. Maybe meeting one wouldn't be so bad. Have you ever met one?"