She sighs and gingerly shuffles a folded piece of paper from her coat's side pocket. "I would like to fix it, I said, but it's more like I want to redo it from scratch.

"These are useless now." She opens the paper on the table and stares at the plans she drew up for a radio-controlled 'UFO'-inspired device. She gives him an appraising look.

She motions at it and says, her hands leaving it, "Since you asked." Go ahead and look.