Bossuet has been looking distinctly sheepish, as well one might after showing up drunk at an infirmary with a bumped head, but Joly's question sparks a sudden grin from him. "And so our young hero discovered the science of the future, and was not heard of outside the infirmary for a week," he mock-narrates. (Quietly. He wouldn't want to interfere with an answer. Really--what is that, and how does it work?)