Two very different questions," Claudius thinks to himself. "I think," he says, "the mansion's sense of time broke that day. My arm healed extraordinarily well, if anything. The skin on it looks newer than before¹. But I remember it being healed multiple times by multiple people, with no re-injury inbetween." He gives Lan Wangji a bemused look. "We live in a very strange place, Lan Wangji."

¹ Which, frankly, is only making Claudius want to exfoliate more often with more of the products that keep generating out of the bathroom cabinets.