Pepper is sort of surprised when he opens the door for her. First of all because she's not used to men doing things like that for her, being such a tomboy through her youth, and secondly because she was constantly surprised at how much of a gentleman Shadow was. She just wouldn't have figured a big lumbering guy like him for that kind of behavior. "Thanks," she said ducking inside, and waiting for him to follow.

"So that's why you worked in a library: all the coin trick books," she joked on her way through the lobby, finally reaching the staircase further back that led to the basment. "But you makin' up your own? That's fantastic! So then we'll have to pick some time during the week where you can teach me. That sounds like it'd be brilliant."