A not all together tall teenage boy (not terribly short, but he'd never make the DHARMA basketball team) sits by the Observation Window. On the table top sits an abandoned book -- and his elbow, propping up the arm attached to the hand beneath the boy's chin as he stares out the window. His other hand is pressed between the pages of his hardcover book, incidentally one of the volumes of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.