"Weird that things can be different anciently and there's still, like. Canada. Same provinces and all."

"With different brands for quick-mix pasta but matching ones for coffee..."

"And the languages match... or, I guess I don't know enough ASL to say that one definitely does, could be I'd go home and find I was signing gibberish."

"I'd been wondering about that as well.  You'd have mentioned if you knew more than English and your amount of French?"

"I mean, I know like, individual words that are basically loaned into English, like. Kimono. Mabuhay. Tai chi."

"Hmm...."

"...I guess without dungeons you might not have much of a Filipino refugee population?"

"How does that follow?"

"Dungeons were really bad for highly urban and also poor places. Indonesia also got hit really hard but not a lot of Indonesians wound up in specifically Toronto so I haven't met as many of them. Egypt did surprisingly well though."

"Mm, refugee population as in 'and their descendants'; I see.  I'd be very curious to hear about this in great detail when I'm a bit more awake."

"Yeah. Sorry. I think I'll be able to sleep in a bit."

"Good.  Perhaps tomorrow night, if there are still no ill effects from the painkillers, we could try a conservative dose of sedatives."

"So far the painkiller has done its job and nothing else."

"I'm relieved to hear it."

"Yeah. Still don't hit me in the head but if I'm too inconvenient we can try sedating me later maybe. Sorry."

"I'm not going to hit you in the head."  He will, however, ruffle Haru's hair.  "If it sounds good to you, we'll try something to get you asleep initially, and work our way up if that goes well.  I don't feel it would be safe to induce a coma, as much as you might prefer it."

"Some people just fall into comas directly with their backlash. Which is a huge liability in dungeons and I guess this isn't, so that will be cool, if I ever go home and have good powers for dungeons. But it sounds nice right now."

"Well, we might be able to get you skipping as many as twelve hours a day, if all goes well."

"I do want to be awake when I'm coming out of it. So I can - watch it going."

Haru can feel Xavier nod behind him.  "We can certainly skip that night."

"Thank you."

"Mm."

Can Haru be quiet long enough to fall asleep. Maybe. He's going to try very very hard.

It seems Xavier can!

"Soap."