Nina grinned brightly. "It'll be like a surprise!" she told him, pushing onward and then, after about thirty seconds, saying: "okay, let's stop, just for a minute." She put the sofa down carefully and stretched her arms across her chest, one after the other.
She frowned. "That's only one block," she said, "but I think I can make it."
Then, taking a deep breath, Nina picked up the banana-coloured prize again and started walking. They continued down the busy street, and she fielded a couple of 'cool sofa!'s on the way.
They stopped once every block - although once Nina made it two blocks without having to pause - and eventually arrived at the building where her father lived, and where her apartment was.
"This is me," Nina said, putting the couch down once more, glad there was now only a little further to go. She put her hands on her hips, panting a little, and wiped the sweat from her brow with the back of her arm. "Oh man, I've really earned this thing."
Nina had been thinking, as they walked, about how this would go down if her father was home. She really didn't want to introduce Peter to Tezcatlipoca. It would probably be okay but meeting the girlfriend's dad was a whole different deal when the girlfriend's dad was the god of (among other things) enmity, discord, and strife.
She smiled at Peter, who didn't look like he was even warm after all that. She supposed once you carried people out of burning buildings, a sofa could almost be tossed over your shoulder.