You're a gamer? [ he brightens up a little bit at that, if only slightly. ] MMOs are pretty sweet, there's this group I play Warcraft with back home--

[ geez, back home. apparently he's not done processing yet, 'cause between saying those words with his mouthflap and hearing Kaoru say she hopes her online buddies are doing okay, it kinda hits him all over again. ]

... hey, uh. I totally get if there's no way you know the answer to this, but. It just hit me that, how we were saying how we're all from different dimensions? How does that work time-wise, I mean, is this like a Narnia gig where if we ever figure out how to get back we'll wind up right back when we left, or is time passing back home right now?

[ god, he hopes it's not the latter option. ]