I'd say nice to meet you, but I'm sure we'd both prefer better circumstances. [Business meetings with family members, huh... He's got enough complicated feelings about his own family to avoid pressing.] Not long at all, just a few hours. If we're lucky, no one's even realized I'm gone yet. [He smiles easily.] Though if this takes more than a day or two, I'll be in the same boat as you.

[...In a situation like this, it's probably more harm than help to be cagey about his experiences.] Time isn't necessarily going to move the same way here as it is back home, though.