Shine boyfriend apartment is big Shine realizes somewhere between the end of the world and now. It has unnecessarily high ceilings and most of its walls are bare, hallways stretching out and cutting off. Shine doesn't know exactly how many rooms there are but he thinks there's probably some serious manipulation with the laws of physics involved.

He wonders if that's legal and secretly hopes it's not, just for the liberty of it. He might have read something about a tax on construction once. It's not important. One day, his boyfriend proves Shine's initial allegations about his culinary skills wrong. Shine feels better, lighter than he has since Alex's disappearance...