"Never too late to learn, Nick, somethin' I've picked up while livin' here," Ellis remarked as he walked the thin line between two friends at a bar, and the full-blown date that this was. He didn't want Nick to feel uncomfortable on their first time out and it's kind of cute to see him squirm.

"I've been learnin' all my life, ever since I was bite-sized an' I helped my granddad with his shop," the mechanic smiled, looking at how plastered he could get given the Capitol's need for extravagance, "It's somethin' I did to pass th' summers, my parents were real young when they had me. Like I said last time, I was basically free as a bird an' boy did I get in trouble some times. You sound like my friend Dave, the quiet sorta guy."