"Nah. They've basically swapped their circadian rhythms. So they still get their sleep, just at night, which they think is day."

"That is incredible."

Zev squeezes Nova in excitement. 

And here are the red pandas! Who Lan is very enthusiastic about!

He points to one climbing down a practically vertical tree trunk. "They are so cute, and so good!"

Something very sad crosses over Zev's face, like he doesn't believe he should be here-

-but that goes quickly, and instead he presses a kiss to Nova's temple. "Nearly as cute as you. Nearly."

'Chelle notices anyway, and squeezes his hand, leaning a little heavier into his shoulder.

Nova gives a slightly startled squeak, but leans into Zev. "They're...very cute."

"So what does that make you?"

"-I don't. know?"

"Even cuter," Zev whispers, and rests his chin on Nova's shoulder, to better watch the red pandas. 

Nova smiles and leans into Zev. Eventually though-

"We should go find the lions?"

"The aye-ayes were on the way through, yes?"

"Nope! Lions first! And you say 'find' like you're not at the zoo with people who know the layout like the back of our hands!"

"Except for the margay enclosure. The first trick to finding the margay is finding the enclosure. I have no idea how it keeps being hidden."

"What's a margay?" Zev asks, but obediently follows Ant. 

"Small South American cat, very similar to an ocelot."

Zev stops in his tracks, eyes huge. 

"Dios mío, tengo que verlos de inmediato o tal vez nunca me recupere."

"Eso es difícil cuando no podemos encontrarlos."

"And now we're speaking in tongues!"

Zev winks at Lan. "Nos vamos a meter en problemas si seguimos haciendo esto."

"Probablemente."

"Tja, om vi talar i tungor..."

"If you're not careful, Ira's gonna confuse us all by refusing to speak in anything but Japanese."

Zev laughs. "My deepest apologies, but ocelots and ocelot-alike were mentioned and I'm afraid I forgot how to speak English."

"It's okay. I understand more of languages than I speak of them. And to be fair, ocelots and margays are very exciting."

But in the meantime: Lions!