“Now what’s the other thing?”
“Hmm, excuse me?”
“If I recall correctly, you said there were a couple of things bothering you. What’s the other?”
“Well… it’s this house.”
“What about the house?” Aahz exploded, slipping easily back into his old patterns. “It’s got enough room for us and our friends and your bodyguards when they show up and Buttercup and Gleep and anyone else who wanders by.”
“That’s true.”
“What’s more, we got it for free. It’s a good deal.”
“Say that again, Aahz.”
“I said,’it’s a good …’Oh.”
“From the Deveels, right?”
“Oh come on, Skeeve. It’s just a house. What could be wrong?”
“To use your phrase, ‘The mind boggles.’ I’ve been trying to spot the-catch, and I want you to check me to see if my facts and logic are correct.”
“Okay.”
“Now. Deveels are experts at dimension travel. If I understand it right, they manage these ‘bigger inside than outside’ houses by offsetting the dimensions just a bit. That is, if we numbered the dimensions, and Deva was one, then our door is in dimension one and the rest of our house is in dimension one point four or something.”
“Now that’s one I hadn’t thought about before,” Aahz admitted. “The Deveels have been pretty tightlipped about it. Makes sense, though. It would be rough to play the poverty-stricken shopowner with a place like this just over your shoulder. If I had thought about it I would have realized a Deveel needs someplace secret to keep his wealth.”
“So we’ve effectively been given our own dimension,” I continued; “An unlisted dimension that’s all ours. For free, no less.”
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