"A while? Is that a while like...a hundred years or a while like five?" Mauri asked, bemused by Percy's distracted answer. "Well, five minutes here can make you remember that, so long as they're the right five minutes...or perhaps the wrong five minutes..."
A smile graced Mauri's face. "Really? Is he staying with you?" He rather liked Alex. He wasn't so...dour. But then, he also wasn't quite as pretty.