The same goes for anything from back home, for most of us. It doesn't hurt to learn. Though, sounds a lot more like gods when you put it like that.

[Indeed, one gets the sense that while Rideaux has a whole grudge and half with these that will probably come up any time he needs curse words, Jean continues to give his somewhat lackadaisical but not insincere responses to... whatever Rideaux is going on about. He's doing his best (maybe).

(Very maybe.)

There's a slow drag as he tries some more to work out all this business of 'spirits' and 'world creation' and whatnot. Big talk for an audience that's used to much more mundane things, so maybe that's why he moves on after a moment -- or it's just that rations seem much more close at hand surrounded by food and the evidence of the Shimmer in the distance.]

... If it's possible to make it back, it should be possible to stretch them? I think.