Right, his world is weird. It's hard to remember that when he spends so much time in the Nexus. Here everyone seems to accept magic as fact, as normal, or to have dabbled in it. "Have you ever wanted to learn something properly? For the long term, I mean."

'Make him' take breaks. Viatorus smiles back again, playing his turn in the exchange of socially expected pleasantness. He knows he can't comment. That he's complained about being forced to stop and eat. Seeing that happen with Josh, though...

"Have you been working hard? Maybe you should take a holiday."