"Have a good day!"

How much time do they have before he has more appointments? He keeps not having the opportunity to set up pen and ink.

It's a bit past 4, he has an appointment with the Watch at 5, his channel is at 6:30. It's about a thirty minutes' walk between all those places.

He isn't making dinner since he prepared a Remove Blindness instead, so. "Is there a good place to eat that we can stop at between here and the Watch office, or between there and the channel? I don't have my food creation spell today so the inn isn't free on this occasion."

"Everything around here is overpriced as heck. If we take a ten minutes' detour east there's a Gnoll food market that's pretty good."

"Is it quick? I think there's time for that if it's street food and not if there are waiters involved."

"Yeah, it's street food. They have places to sit if you want to, but it's fast, or we can eat while we walk."

Nod. "Which way?"

Dross will lead the way.

...While they have a moment, he'll ask, "Something bugging me about the translation. How many days do you have in a week, where you're from?"

"Seven. Is it different here?"

"Eight. Llornas, Saelsmorn, Beithday, Nendas, Tirenv, then Lundas, Gnorna and Zenze are the weekend. And you have Moonday, Toilday, Wealday, Oathday, Fireday, Starday, Sunday?"

"That's right. What day is it here now?"

"It's Saelsmorn. Toilday. I've been translating them in number order. Should I continue doing that and just call Zenze 'Zenze*'?"

*Pronunciation nativized to Chelish phonemes.

"No, I should probably just learn the days of the week. So it's Saelsmorn and tomorrow will be -"

Dross will run through the days of the week as many times as requested.

1. Llornas (work)
2. Saelsmorn (work)
3. Beithday (work)
4. Nendas (work)
5. Tirenv (work)
6. Lundas (weekend)
7. Gnorna (weekend)
8. Zenze (weekend)

"So the Magister's office hours include tomorrow, Beithday, but not the five days after that?"

"Yes."

"Well, I guess I'd better make it over there tomorrow, then."

Nod.

"And just to clear up any latent misunderstandings, here it's four weeks a month, and sixteen months a year. Are yours different?"

"We have about four weeks a month but only twelve months a year. What season is this? I'm not familiar with the climate."

"We're mid-autumn... how do you have about four weeks a month."

"Different months are different lengths. Only Calistril is exactly four weeks." If anybody had asked Blai he would have said the month that was exactly four weeks long and not an awkward fraction should go to a Lawful god, but alas.

"So some of them are three and some of them are... are there months inexactly four weeks?"

"Most months are thirty or thirty-one days."

Math. Math?

"When the month ends, do you just stop the week and start over from Moonday? Isn't that confusing?"