Ah, I see. Yours sounds a lot less complicated. The months I'm used to have alternating days between thirty and thirty-one, except for two months in a row that have thirty-one... and the second month, which has twenty-eight... except every four years, when it has twenty-nine. [Gregorian calendar, why. He shrugs and raises his eyebrows as if to say he has no idea.

He notices the attempt to look at his watch, though, and gives a small, friendly smile, offering his wrist for Ember to look at it. Just don't mind the other side of his wrist and we'll be fine.] I'll never really understand how the systems we have for time came to be the standard...