"Why not?"

"Because how come other people don't have it for sale or on display or something?"

"Alexandrite is a very rare gem."

"But someone has some, right?"

"Right..."

"So why can't I find anyone who has it?"

"Well, because it's very rare."

Eric furrows his brows and dips from his smoothie thoughtfully.

"People who have the gem being rare isn't the same as them not existing, though, right?"

Peter's starting to get the hang of communicating complicated concepts to people, he thinks. One step at a time, don't do any long inference chains at once, let them be the ones who have to supply the next step...

Zach's stopped swimming and he's furrowing his brows, now, too.

"...right," Lucas says, seemingly under the same spell.

"So it's very weird that I can't find anyone, at all, anywhere, who has it." Come on, guys, Peter believes in you.

"...yeah... That is very weird..."

Eric opens his mouth to say something—

—but he's interrupted by Tae-hwan stopping his laps and saying, "Why's everyone looking like that, is Peter distracting you guys with nerd shit again?"

And the spell is broken. "I'm starting to get cold, let's go back inside," says Zach.

"Yeah, let's."

Tae-hwan, Peter wants to kill you a little bit right now.

Not being a mind reader, Tae-hwan swims past him cheerfully to heave himself out of the pool and follow Zach and Lucas in.

Eric lingers for a second, though. "We should go to Selvadorada. That's very weird. I don't understand it, and I want to."

Then yeah he'll go inside.

...wait that was. Different. That right there, from Eric.

"Hang on," he calls, nearly slipping and falling on his face in his rush to get out of the water. "What did you just say?"

"That I'm really hungry and want dinner," he calls over his shoulder.

"That is totally not what you said!"

"No? It should've been, 'cause it's true."