[As he began to mop, she made sure to stay out of the way and continued scrubbing the pot. Glancing at him, she wondered if that meant he was from the past. Well...what she understood as the past anyway. But maybe he wasn't from the China she knew. Hm. This was confusing.]

"When you say conveniences...do you mean like the stove? I ask because there is China where I'm from...but maybe we are from different times?"