[Alphonse isn't the only one with a distrust of all things Qri... maybe if Geir had an opportunity to actually talk to her, he'd feel differently, but for now he's assuming she's brought them here for her own purposes. still, he doesn't have other obligations, and Alphonse is correct that this is interesting.]

. . . about a month. I'd been sleeping for a long time before that.

[try a few thousand years]