"That's a relief," she says, coming back into the living room with the tool kit in hand before settling on the floor next to Jamie. She nods at his request, then opens up the bag and starts sorting through it.

It's harder than she'd first anticipated--why they'd decided this needed two kinds of screws that seemed only a half-inch different from one another in length, she can't possibly fathom--but after checking and re-checking the one in her hand against the illustration in the instruction booklet, she hands it and the little tool over to Jamie. "Here, I'll hold the two pieces steady while you work."