"Hey thanks for that papercut, how about putting some lemon juice in it", or "committing a rudeness so rude that its recipient is shocked into answering truthfully without a second thought: something that has ABSOLUTELY NEVER HAPPENED TO ME, NOPE" [though, to be fair, the set of reasonable answers here is limited]

For the record, a Terran* year is about 9826 hours [hours are nearly the same], so Darian is about seventeen in Earth time, and the equivalent of a senior in high school. Similarly, Alex is almost sixteen/a junior. Just pointing this out because otherwise it doesn't come up at all, since I'm not inclined to draw the book version's conversion table in a GN.

*I know sometimes Terra[n] is substituted for Earth[ling], but it's simpler to say than Terra-Firman, and here I'm just trying to designate "not Earth" [with vague success].

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