Max and his companions walked over to their seats and promptly sat down as soon as they reached them. Luckily for them, the event had not started yet. They overheard a few conversations going on around them about how it was typical behavior that Andy would show up fashionably late for all of his events. “Ah, late again as usual...” “Riese time is Riese time after all. I’m not surprised.” “You’d think one day this brilliant man would develop a watch for himself that runs a little earlier than normal.” “Oh well, shall we distract ourselves for a few more moments?” There were several of these conversations going on already. None of them malicious in any way. They talked about it as if they were already used to being at Andy’s

