Wayne's fumblings made him, if anything, a little more relatable to Joey. The teen-adult gap was still very wide and apparent, but there was still some confidence to be had in himself, supporting this weird little mission with a good suggestion.

He nodded, clipping the pen to a corner of his little stack of paper and turning to start his search for the search engines, hardly suspect of what Wayne had in mind for encyclopedias other than learning.

It's a long, boring search. Even a kid like Joey, who never spent a day inside a school or library prior to, was susceptible to heavy eyelids and a wandering mind.