[The next day is a rest day, which means Yuan sleeps in an extra ten minutes or so past the time he normally does. Until he can't justify laying about any more and gets up, reviewing already what he'll have to do with the day.]

[It isn't as much as it would have been before he acquired Kratos. There will be more time for leisure, and some of that time it seems reasonable to devote to the project of reading, and teaching Kratos to do so in Sylvaranti. ...Probably multiple dialects, now that Yuan thinks of it. There's no point in not being thorough.]

[He hears Kratos passing in the hall; Yuan thinks the rhythm of his steps sounds wrong, but it's a passing thought until a little later, when he heads toward the kitchen and has to take a moment to watch Kratos, as the thought occurs to him.]