"It was an understandable reaction, I suppose," Nautilus responded. Behind that, he actually expected a more detailed answer from Ebil. However, he understood that such an answer would take long to explain, and that was if it was describable, which might not be likely the case, so he decided not to ask further questions. Although Ebil had mentioned the name of the academy for the second time, Nautilus still couldn't remember it, and in fact he had already given up on trying to remember it now. If we stay there long enough, I'll remember it eventually. Else, remembering it won't be very important, he thought.
Muse's remarks about time made Nautilus thought for a while. The way we perceive time is the most important thing, he said. Perhaps if I thought that time always move forwards like in the real world, then there should be no problems, no matter how slow the rate is. Time. Moves. Forward, ..., he said to himself, more like giving suggestions. Namely in the direction of increasing entropy, he ended the sentence in a rather anticlimactic way. Soon after that, however, he remembered one thing, namely the real world. No one knows how fast or slow time runs on the Guild relative to the real world. "But how long is a day here compared to the real world?" he asked a follow-up question, while climbing the dragon and holding on to whatever he could as the party seemed to plan to get to the academy. If this thing doesn't accelerate rather quickly, we should be safe, he thought. "I think everyone's up for going up now, sorry to be the last," he said.