"I did try growing papyrus bark one time but it's not comfy. I have a real notebook though."

"That is good and probably solves the immediate issue but it would be a little silly not to at any point check the general store for more notebooks probably." 

"Yeah, good idea." She knocks on Xander's door again. This time he wakes up and accepts porridge.

"We have agreed to investigate the local book situation, unless you can think of anything more urgent," Lucy tells Xander.

"I mean, we could see if they have any really nice duck decoys for sale, but I guess we can do books." Om nom. "So, was there only one bed in your room too?"

"Lucy graciously slept on the floor."

"Aha."

"I can turn into literally diamond and most things are more comfortable when you're harder than they are." 

"That so? Wow." He slurps porridge. "Wow, this isn't great."

"It isn't terrible either," she shrugs. 

"Yeah, I dunno, I was hoping for futuristic x-treme flavor blasts or something. This is like something you'd get at a no name diner off a state highway in Nebraska."

"You've never been to Nebraska."

"Well, maybe I'd go if somebody advertised their amazing oatmeal, but nobody does, because it's like this, probably."

"What's Nebraska?"

"It's a state. We're from a country called the United States of America and it has fifty states in it."

"Oh, I knew that country existed but I didn't know many of the names of the states. There's...New York? Virginia, I think?"

"Yes, those are two of them."

"We live in Washington. The state not the city."

"There's a city and also a state?"

"Yup. Washington D.C. the city is the capital of the whole country and Washington state is a state. In the Pacific Northwest. People like naming stuff after George Washington."

"Huh. --Not entirely salient right now I admit." 

"My C plus in Geography may never be useful again."

"Yeah, it's plausible we won't get home."

"I will definitely figure it out eventually."

"How long is eventually?"