"You could stand on the corner of the street and say 'I'm a time travelling robot' and nobody here would believe you, Quint," Ballade points out, still in German.

Quint just sighs and shakes his head. "I'm sorry about this," he says to John in English, as he starts walking towards where he now thinks the library should be. "Ballade's just... kind of like this. I wouldn't have brought him with me," he adds a brief warning glance at the bigger boy, "but my older brother really needed a break."

"It's funny when Enker falls asleep at dinner, though," says Ballade, also switching back to English for now.