Zach is still fast asleep.

...hm. He gently shakes Zach awake.

He wakes up with a jolt. "Huh what who where?"

"Hey. It's ten forty-five. Have you had anything to eat, do you want dinner?"

"Oh... yeah, okay."

have you guys eaten?

we're going to the kitchen to get dinner

we've eaten but thanks

Zach still looks sluggish and tired but he can be extracted from his bed and moved to the kitchen.

Yeah. Whoops. Peter had kinda forgotten about the magic charge cost. He is really thankful, though.

Anyway, for the potion of Plentiful Needs, you need a two-inch diameter sapphire, which, like, wow, okay, he really should "become powerful enough" for that Copypasto spell asap, this is not sustainable. But on the bright side the actual brewing part isn't all that complex, plus the knowledge is now the kind of indelible all of his timeslid knowledge seems to be, which means he won't forget it anytime soon. He probably didn't really need to actually get a whole copy of these things, but so it goes. Maybe the more complex/powerful spells take longer to be learned. He should actually just look at the ingredient lists of these potions to go acquire them, once he's got Copypasto down.

For now, though, he'll go eat dinner then shower then sleep.

The second week of Peter's existence passes with much fewer existential discoveries—

Wait, hang on, are they skipping over Peter's whole week just like that?

...does he have an objection to that?

Yes! Yes he does! He only meant to timeslide over going to sleep, not a full week!

He's not timesliding, this is merely a narrative skip in order to move on with the plot.

...oh.

Nothing of note happens this week that the story needs concern itself with, other than what had been about to be explained.

Right. Okay. Makes sense.

Does Peter have any further objections?

No, he's good, carry on.

Ahem.

The second week of Peter's existence passes with much fewer existential discoveries, and is thus a marked improvement over his first week, as far as he's concerned—

Hang on, shouldn't Peter be the one to decide whether something is or isn't an improvement as far as he's concerned? This seems like overstepping a bit.

Fine, does Peter want to be the one doing this instead, then? Will that make him happy? He's gonna have to go over everyone else's narration, too, no one's about to let Tae-hwan narrate what happens to him, that wouldn't be very informative at all.

Yes, Peter thinks that's acceptable.

Have at it, then.