Percy flicks him a look as he crowds close, but helpfully holds the watch so that Yuri can watch everything he does as he clears the screen. "Well quite," he says absently as he flicks through to make sure it's back to default settings before he holds the device back out. "That seems to be the case for most I've spoken to. Whatever strangeness they might be used to back home."

And Percy is used to some very weird things. But Aefenglom is still Aefenglom and it's never been quite like anything else. "I won't say you get used to it, but it does stop feeling quite so painfully alien after a little while."