"Just, like, go out camping?"

"I don't think so? It's really vague."

"Huh. I came out pretty opinionated about stuff I like."

"Maybe you're just a very opinionated person. I think I came out interested in trying new things, so hopefully I'll like some."

"Yeah fair enough. There are plenty of woods that are not beyond the mysterious thresholds if you ever want to try to figure that one out."

"Maybe I'll take up hiking."

"I know of some nice trails.—uh, as in, I came with this knowledge pre-installed."

"Well, probably they'll be there if I look for them."

"Yeah, although fifty-fifty on them being at the edge of some threshold and you going on a hike only to find yourself back where you started four hours later feeling sore as hell."

"That would be so annoying!"

"Honestly my biggest hope for experiments at the threshold would be figuring out a way to push them out. Or just sidestep them completely and be able to go places, physically."

"Skipping between places would be convenient if it didn't cost time and exhaustion just like getting there the long way."

"Yeahhhhhh."

"How much slower are you aging than everyone else?"

"I've only been around a year so my estimates may not be totally accurate but best guess is around four to six times."

"Huh. Is that the same factor as cereal sogginess?"

"No, I don't think so. I'm not sure there's a single factor, there, cooking stuff in the microwave is definitely closer to ten times slower but in the oven it's more like two or three and I think the cereal thing would be slightly more than ten."

"Have you tried asking someone to microwave things for you?"

"Yeah, it takes NPC time."

"Maybe it'd speed up parts of our lives to get live-in maids or something."

"No, no, every instance of them doing that kind of stuff has them doing it more slowly than me. Or did you mean something else?"

"- oh, right, I had it backwards, you age slower but you sog cereal faster. Sorry."

"Yeah. The way I sort of separate it in my head is that—anything that matters for their life story, like relationships or jobs or skills or aging, goes faster for them, and anything else that doesn't matter, like how long it takes to cook or shower or clean or have a conversation, goes slower for them."

"...I don't know what to make of that."

"It's utterly bizarre!"