"Not a spell, but a different thing that's kind of like a spell."

"Oh. Okay."

"How long do you think it'll take you to be sober again?"

"Say three hours?"

"Alright. Well, you go first, if you have trouble I wanna be around to help troubleshoot."

"Very kind of you.

"...what do I do, though?"

"Just think about what you want to do and how long you want to do it for and intend to do it and focus on how tedious it would be to do it the long way. Or, not exactly tedious, there's, like, a way to think about it, but tedium was how I first figured it out, so."

Hmm. Alright. So he thinks for the next three hours he's just going to hang out with the other three doing nothing in particular, which he'd normally enjoy but right now he kind of doesn't want to interact with Zach and Tae-hwan too much because being drunk like this around them is kind of unpleasant, and he kinda wishes he were alr—

It's three hours later. The four of them hung out, swam in the pool, had a foursome, got dinner, and are now in the living room of their rental cottage shooting the breeze.

...wow, Peter was right, that sex feels very unsatisfying. Even though he thinks it felt satisfying at the time? But now he can't remember the contents of it at all?

The light of awareness returns to Peter's eyes a few seconds after Eric comes to.

"Hey. You back?"

"Yeah."

"Back from where?"

"Daydreaming." Zach needs to stop being so damn curious.

...or maybe not. Maybe it'll be useful for him to be confused.

He sure is confused right now!