A frown pulls his features down when Akihito instantly rises from where he’s been placed to rest. Atreyun’s dismay is short lived, replaced by some level of surprise and awe when the room is bathed instantly and fully in light. He physically jolts, blinking around the room to find the light sources that lit like magic. (Is electricity not magic to someone who knows no such thing?) A few seconds pass before Atreyun takes in the whole of the room. As expected, it’s very unlike what he knows. The homes of people thousands of years ago are alien in comparison to this.

Without a word more, he follows Akihito to another room (partitioned rooms! What a novelty!). Once more he jerks his head up when the lights come on. He’s much quicker this time to look at his surroundings. Very foreign to him, indeed. But the way he audibly gasps when Akihito turns the tap and the water pours forth. But the basin it spills into is fixed and not large enough to get a pail under…

“How do you use this to bathe?”