It was to be expected that few knew how the time compression worked... but what a curious reaction. Ahri spoke as though she didn't care what happened to her world. Raidou made a quiet note of it before moving on. "Thank you; I think I'll do that. No one I've asked so far seems to know the answer, though... so it's apparently not common knowledge."

"One who steers a vessel," explained Tam Lin. "A boat, for instance." Well, if she didn't know the term, chances were that she wasn't one...