[ Okay, that answers that. She definitely has humanesque social skills. Tim will treat her as he does anyone else. He'll just add crouching down so they're a little more eye-to-eye. ]

I almost wish you were. It would be nice to have someone explain all this, and I think you'll be as helpful as anyone else that's turned up. Mice can smell better than humans, and you'll be better than even me for shimmying through ducts and finding out what's on the other side of locked doors.

[ He doesn't have his lockpicks with him, so naturally he's trying to devise a means of having a mouse crawl under a door and somehow unlock it, despite the relative height of most locks. It's a work in progress. ]