"Maybe real rabbits like them better. Or it must be pretty terrible to be a rabbit."

"Maybe. I don't know which. I'm a talking rabbit, I don't think most rabbits talk, so I don't know about other rabbits."

"I wonder if you can talk to other animals now, like how dragons can talk to cats without being witches."

"I tried to talk to one of the dogs that's around and it just barked and it sounded like barking. I haven't tried any cats though."

"Maybe you can't, then." Pet pet. "You're really fluffy."

"I know! But I can't pet myself, it's kind of frustrating."

"Oooh," says Jann, this appealing both to his sense of fairness and his sense of fluff. "...Wait, but you're not allowed in the treasure rooms anymore."

"I never said I wouldn't go in them," Milo points out, this being the crucial distinction as far as Milo is concerned. "It wouldn't be that hard to sneak in, I bet. And if I did it right when there was gonna be a new moon, I could just go outside when you were done petting me and nobody might even know."

"Oh, I guess that makes sense. But you're stuck in bed, now," Jann says. "And now is a new moon."

"Yeah. I'd have to wait a month. That's how long there is between the same kind of moon happening."

"Oh. What happens to all these moons?" wonders Jann.

"I think it might be the same moon just being different shapes at different times," says Milo.

"Then how is it a new moon, if it's just shapeshifting repetitively?"

"I dunno, that's just what it's called. Maybe it's like how the start of a year is a new year?"

"Are we living the same year over and over?" asks Jann, whiskers twitching. "That doesn't make sense, we couldn't get any older."

"I mean maybe it's called that because the moon shapes are sort of like the moon is having little seasons in little moon-years."

"Oh." Pause. "Wait, why do seasons exist in the first place? If the moon can have them so fast why are ours slower?"

"I dunno. I think years are a good length, though," says Milo. "If they were shorter and the seasons went around really fast it might be harder to grow things."

"Well, I don't think I'd mind after two more rabbit food meals just having to eat not-grown things like cheese which is made from milk and bread which is baked annnnnd bacon which is fried."

"...I think bread is made from grown things..." says Milo dubiously.

"It's mostly flour. Flour is milled," says Jann. "You can put seeds in it but you shouldn't because then your bread will have seeds."

"What's it milled from though," says Milo, "wheat I think, wheat is grown."

"Oh."

"Yeah. So bread is made from grown things. And I like bread."