When he's done eating there's a knock at the door.

"I'm awake."

She opens the door. "Hello! These people had your language in their records, I should be better at it now and I'll be able to translate when I know more about theirs. Are you still hungry?"

"There was a rice thing. If they have something fried that'd be good?"

"I'll see if I can get across 'fried'!" She turns and talks to someone just out of view in Greek about that. Presently she says, "They have fried chicken."

"That'd be great. Do they want money? Not that I have any on me, but, good to know what we're committing to."

"Someone bought a layer of my clothes very enthusiastically and I believe the hotel room is comped."

"Oh, good. Did they say where we are?"

"The planet is called Muse and this town is called Toicho."

"Do they happen to know where England is?"

"They say it's on Earth and they don't have the technology yet to go back and see what happened to it."

He looks very confused on several different levels. "Mmm," he says after a second. "Thanks for asking."

"If you have followup questions I can ask them?"

"I don't - or, uh, I don't think I have anything I need to know."

"Okay. Well, they seem friendly. The monsters are called okzo and they're dangerous, people get torn apart by them pretty often if they go on hikes, and they say none of the wild plants are edible, only what they farm."

"Are they Muggles?"

"That word wasn't in the dictionary I read."

"Can they do magic?"

"I haven't seen any."

"Muggles are humans who can't do magic, though dunno how they'd do all this without it. Ours are constantly miserable and dying and their cities run with sewage because it's really hard to do stuff without magic."

"- Quendi and orcs and Dwarves can't do magic, and Elves get help from Ainur who can but the orcs and Dwarves do that much less and their cities aren't like that."

"It makes sense that the not dying would help a lot."

"Yes. Maybe that's most of it." Sigh. "Uh, I'm still learning Greek but I think the locals want you to change clothes for some reason and they took the liberty of picking something out for you."

"You told them that I'm leaving, right?"

"I told them you were likely to want to do that and they told me an okzo would tear you apart and you'd have nothing to eat you didn't bring with you, and I said I wasn't sure you'd find that a compelling argument but I'd be sure you knew before you left."