At least they make good alcohol. My sister learned how to make some really good vodka from a Russian.
[There's a long pause from Alec as he parses what Erik has to say. It's a bit harder to do it while speaking in Russian.]
Oh! Oh! ... No. No... no... there's no age gap. We're both twenty three... it's just that my birthday ... the physical date... it's on the equivalent of February 29th and she's on February 28th. It's just that... the circumstances that gave me my abilities have made my personal time line a wibbly wobbly mess. Only seconds pass on my world while I can spend lifetimes in other worlds. So. I spend three hours here. Another two years somewhere else. Come back home and no one knows I've been gone.
not even a minute walk... what could it hurt I thought...
[There's a long pause from Alec as he parses what Erik has to say. It's a bit harder to do it while speaking in Russian.]
Oh! Oh! ... No. No... no... there's no age gap. We're both twenty three... it's just that my birthday ... the physical date... it's on the equivalent of February 29th and she's on February 28th. It's just that... the circumstances that gave me my abilities have made my personal time line a wibbly wobbly mess. Only seconds pass on my world while I can spend lifetimes in other worlds. So. I spend three hours here. Another two years somewhere else. Come back home and no one knows I've been gone.
[He thinks that's what Erik is asking about.]