Max passes the time by reading up on sleep. As he suspected, sleep doesn't actually increase the body's available energy, but rather regulates a number of metabolic and mental processes.

Which... does not actually make it less confusing to Max that sleep can be offloaded onto a mouse. Surely mouse sleep differs enough from human sleep for the transfer of "sleepiness" to be considerably asymmetrical? And it can't just be offloading the chemical signals telling the body it's tired- somehow the processes of sleep are actually being done, presumably. He gives Sohng a funny look from across the room.

Trevor quizzes Sohng on some simple pronouns, and learns 'sin' and 'mri'. "D'you think they distinguish between subject and object pronouns?" he asks Victoria.