So he stands up and stretches. "We should probably retire."

Shrug. "I might as well too."

They start back to the agency.

"You said you were indestructible. Do you still even need to sleep?" Kaede asks Theo.

"I still sleep if I don't work on stimulants – technology stuff, drugs, that make me less tired – but I can go without indefinitely with them." Shrug. "I would just be going around with them but there isn't much to do in the area so I'd probably just be screwing around with stuff or using my phone."

"How do you get stimulants? Do they work on humans? How long can your phone even go, by the way, I read something about batteries."

"Stimulants, I can change my blood into them. Yes they should work on humans but it's not safe for you to be awake for prolonged amounts of time. My phone should be able to last indefinitely – it can charge through solar power."

"Oh, solar power, that's cool, and—how long is it safe to be awake for, exactly?"

"It depends what level of safe you mean – you won't get permanent consequences if you spend 48 hours, just extremely bad reaction times and headaches and then you'll probably need time to recuperate, varies slightly between people, but if you were to try like a week then it'd probably be pretty severe."

"That sounds like the regular way it works without any of these stimulants."

"My room's that way, good night!" says Tidus.

"Night," responds Theo, then to Sadde: "The stimulants don't work miracles – I really wouldn't suggest you use them for prolonged periods of time. That is approximately how it works without them, yeah, but they mainly make it easier for you to stay awake, help keep you concentrated on things, and try to keep your reaction times good? – They aren't miracle cures for sleep; people don't tend to use them for prolonged periods of time unless they're daeva."

He sighs. "So much for amazing future technology."

"People didn't get into researching sleep much? I'm not really sure why – if I had to sleep I'd personally want to look into it a lot, I think," he shrugs. "We've got cures for various illnesses and methods to produce more, though, and nice informational devices and we can communicate near-instantaneously across the planet? – Not that you have a proper idea of how far that is, but really pretty far."

"I do in fact have some idea of how far that is, I looked that up on your little device and converted units and figured it out."

"– Huh, okay, I'd probably have issues with the whole 'that's a few orders of magnitude higher than I've ever tried imagining before' but I guess that gives a sense of scale?"

"I've been raised with the idea that I'd traverse the whole continent, I have a pretty good sense of scale, I think."

Shrug. "I was brought up in heaven by another Changer, not sure I can relate there."

"Yeah." They reach a room. "This one is yours, I think."

Nod. "– Can I have my phone back, then?"

"Oh, yeah, sure." He hands him the phone back and—

—doesn't say good night. He kinda lingers there, looking somewhat pensive and chewing on his lower lip.

Theo pauses. "Y'know, I realize that I don't know much about the local views on, uh, much of anything."

"Is there anything you'd like me to enlighten you on?"

"– That actually wasn't flirting, more just curiosity," he comments, raising an eyebrow, "but yeah, perhaps you know a few things I don't."

He laughs. "Probably. If you'd prefer I not flirt with you, by all means do say so. And, separately, if you do want to understand more about local culture, I'm all for explaining."

"Eh, I like flirting," responds Theo. "I was more– curious about what the local views are on homosexuality? I mean, it seems from the sample of 'one' that they're 'that's totally fine!' but I'm not clear if that's a universal thing."