"Epic. Who'd you have to protect the border from, other humans or aliens?"

"Humans; we don't have intelligent alien life."

"Awww, would've been cooler if it was aliens."

"It would have. There are movies about it."

"We have movies about aliens too! You should check out Invaders; it's the best."

"I'll have to keep that in mind."

"There's a theater in town if you ever wanna see some of our movies, or you can get them on discs from the library or buy them on the Internet."

"Or stream them free on pirate sites! —which of course is illegal and wrong and you should never do it," he adds with a glance at Frank.

"It will take me possibly quite a long time to get used to using money."

"I wish we had a guide to it like we do about Pokeballs for immigrants from Almia or Fiore or wherever! Maybe once you finally adjust you could write one, you'd know what needs to be explained and then we'd have it ready for if anyone else from your world ever shows up or we finally figure out how to do a permanent portal."

"I'm used to a system a lot like - well, what has happened to me so far today, my situation became apparent to an appropriate public official and I was brought to a suitable institution and provided with resources suitable to my needs, except I understand this can't be expected to go on indefinitely and it is not yet clear how I pay my host society back in this situation."

"You pay society back through taxes! The government takes a little cut of most transactions, it can make the cut bigger if it's something antisocial like emitting pollution or waive it if it's something prosocial like charity for the poor, and uses it to fund cops and public schools and government healthcare and so on."

Solemn nod.

Frank's phone buzzes.

"Kyeo, your government ID card is ready to pick up whenever we're done with dinner; that'll also let you log in to the digital wallet app on your phone and receive the payment from the hospital."

"Where should I collect it?"

"City Hall. You can search for places on your phone's map app like this," he says as he demonstrates, "but for this one you'll want me to go with you anyway so I can confirm to the registrar that you're the same guy I saw fall out of the portal."

"Is right after dinner a good time for you?"

"Yeah! Plus that'll give you time to hit some stores before they close and buy clothes or whatever else you want with your money."

"I suppose I would normally not choose to sleep in uniform."

Frank laughs.

"Me neither!"

With the pizza consumed he will be ready to go at Frank's convenience.

"Bye Kyeo! It was lovely to meet you."

"Goodbye!"

How long a walk is it? Kyeo's in quite good shape when - as now - he is not injured.

It's a short walk! The map app says about five minutes, at average walking speed.

Then it will not be particularly impressive that he can hoof it but he still can.