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That's fine, I'll give it a name for categorization purposes later.

[It was important. He can't just leave it as 'undefined system of measurement'.

He already had seventy three of those.]

Give me a minute and I'll talk about the metric system.

[Right after he snags a coffee, the ordeal of ordering it terse, swift but civil affair with the demon practically bleeding anti-social vibes the entire time. It wasn't personal, he had nothing against the poor cashier behind the counter.

But there was things that had to be done here and the coffee was little more than an arbitrary obstacle. One that he could at least enjoy as he made room for Lahabrea to order, navigating towards an empty table.]

Thankfully for us, I don't need a metric stick to mark out a meter; my cane is two centimeters shy of a full meter, it'll be close enough for this.

As you wish.

[It's offered perfectly neutrally. It doesn't matter in the slightest to Lahabrea what name the measurement system should be given. Whether or not he'll actually refer to it by that name is another question entirely, that can be something for later.

As for his own order, Lahabrea makes it in a much the same way as he might anything else - straighforwardly and with minimal outward emotion. As if it is merely another interaction, for all that it is very much necessary so that they might be able to set and discuss that which they intend to.

And either way, once his order is made, he follows Szelhamos to the table in question.

It does, admittedly, take a minute before he answers, but most of that is due to eyeballing the cane in question and taking a moment to hold up the length in his mind's eye.]

By my own measuring, that would be a little more than a yalm.

So that sounds about on par with what's referred to as a 'yard', a different measurement system called the Imperial system. Roughly, of course, we don't have any measurement tools at the moment.

[And even if they did, he wouldn't be able to see them. Frustrating, but he'd make due.]

Would a fulm be more or less than that?

[The Oracle was of course, out and on the table in a flash, recording as quickly as he could. Was his memory capable of retaining this information without it? Sure! But there was nothing wrong with backup.]

[The mention of there being some similarity to something Szelhamos knows is noted, albeit more as a sort of academic curiosity. It is, perhaps, odd that more than one world might have very similar units of measurement, but neither is it all that much stranger than many of the other things that have already happened since his arrival in this world.]

Less. There are three fulms to a yalm.

... Huh.

[That's... actually fascinating because-]

That's how many feet are in a yard. It sounds like your system might be one for one the same as the Imperial system... Honestly fascinating considering the sheer difference in location.

[Entirely different universes sharing the same system? Extremely interesting, digging into the meaning behind that would just have to wait for later though.]

Let's go smaller, I'm curious. If you were to take a fulm and break it up into smaller units, what would those be called? As an example: a foot is broken up into twelve inches.

[There are certainly some interesting implications, in that. Ones that Lahabrea is not immediately going to seek to explore, but they are interesting all the same. Something to ponder over later, perhaps. For now, there are still other questions at hand.]

A fulm is broken up into ilms.

So... A yalm is equal to a yard. A fulm is equal to a foot...

Are there twelve ilms in a fulm?

[Following the basic pattern he's seeing here.]

There are.

[This is offered surprisingly neutrally, for a man who is learning just now that some other world has a very similar system of measurement. But as long as he focuses on the more scientific aspect of it he doesn't need to dwell too much on the oddity of it all.]

[Szel is only marginally more energetic about it, but the emotion behind it is distinctly one of excitement.

Excitement being held down like he's trying to smother someone to death, but excitement nevertheless.]

Then that's equivalent to an inch. It seems like your system is one to one a complete match of the Imperial system...

So bearing this in mind, how many yalms tall would you normally be? For comparison's sake, I'll just let you know that in my unaltered state, I'd be three and one third yalms tall.

Some seven or so yalms tall.

[He could be more precise if he wanted to be. But just at the moment he doesn't see any particular necessity to, either. Not when the point is that normally he would be a fair bit taller than he currently is.]

So roughly twenty one fulms, which is twenty one feet.

[Finally. There is a minute amount of tension relief in his face and shoulders, apparently the lack of information was actually really bothering him.]

... Yeah I can see why you'd probably not feet the average shot of whiskey.

Mmm.

[There's a nod of agreement, the gesture habit for all that Szelhamos can't see it.]

It has certainly made such attempts less appealing, here.

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