This is still a placeholder, but essentially: Eduard finds the cave in the woods, cleaning it out for probably days on end. Eduard goes into the castle to help deliver something, and Sophie can help him run off.

Eduard had been supremely nervous, returning to Milliways for something so daring as bringing someone back to Pressburg with him, especially someone such as the blonde girl who follows him through his doorway.

His doorway which leads him directly out into the street in front of his house, and Eduard immediately starts to walk towards the most inconspicuous alleyway he can find so Zoe can get her bearings.

At fifteen, Eduard knew more about cabinetmaking than any of the other boys his age in Bratislava (Pressburg, his father corrected him in his soft chiding way, Do not forget the real names of things) knew about their fathers' occupations, and this led Eduard's father to allow him far more leeway in the day-to-day affairs of the family business.

He was also the only apprentice Eduard's father knew of that did not complain about being inside, even as the gentry wandered in from the Other Side of Town to do business in their finery.

(It never helps to be bitter about the customer, Eduard decided a long while ago. He had more important things to study and consider.)

At the moment, that involved answering the front door to both home and workshop to a customer.