'It gives money?' Damen asked, once again not understanding anything at all. 'How? Where does it come from?'

He followed Matthias into the room, only stopping short when he realized exactly why Matthias had gone in there at all. Though nudity was no issue to Damen, he knew that wasn't so in every culture. He turned away to inspect the bare, white walls and the furnishings of this room, shaking his head.

'I can't make sense of any of this,' he confessed a moment later, turning when Matthias speaks again and glancing down at his feet with a new expression of bewilderment. They were most certainly not boots, though they at least bore laces. 'They are comfortable?'