How long has it been? It's so easy to lose track in this immutable summer, hotter and brighter than any Dimitri's ever known. " ... about four months, give or take a week or two. They're named differently, but they seem to correspond to ours -- it was towards the end of Blue Sea Moon, when I woke up here, and it's the beginning of Red Wolf Moon now. Though the last I remember of home was a few weeks before the White Heron Ball." Dimitri's tone remains serious as ever; if anything, he shifts more formal, his diction practiced and precise. "I confess I'd been looking for an excuse to avoid it, but I hadn't anticipated this one."