For someone who had grown accustomed to having the entirety of human knowledge available in his back pocket, Chase found not having a phone truly frustrating. Especially when trying to decode half a sentence of some unknown language that was buried under grime inside an old pocket watch that acted as an on/off switch for a mysterious disappearing shop. He racked his teenage brain for several minutes trying to work out how on earth he could find out what the inscription said, and then it occurred to him…
A brilliant idea!
An idea so ingenious that he imagined no other teenager in the history of teenagers had ever come up with such a ground-breaking concept! He would do what those ancient forefathers who had come before had done, long ago in the mists of almost-forgotten history…
He would
