[ Poetic and appreciated. Will can't help but agree with that assessment.

It's just that the shock of the next thing Ivar says really throws a wrench in bonding over weird interpretations of an ostensibly-not-sentient world. ] That's— [ This pause is both for Will's own surprise, and some quick mental math. ] —almost twelve hundred years before where I'm— when I'm from.

[ Give him a stunned moment before he's capable of a dry, ] Guess that explains the English problem. I'm not a— linguist, but it's definitely changed since then.

But then how come we can... [ How come they can understand each other? ]