"You know better than anyone that my life goes around secrets, Zechs. You know the quote What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas? Fine then, you apartment is las Vegas now. No one will discover, unless Rufus has some sort of video system that you don't know...that wouldn't surprise me."

Hakuba was still holding Elphaba's broom, and unlike the others time when he used it, the broom was strangely calm, waiting. Hakuba thought that the object was feeling the tension too. He let it go, and the broom flew to a corner, hanging on a wall.

"It has a character." Hakuba informed Zechs, and sat on the chair. "I'm listening."