"There's a bathroom here." Xu Yang pointed to a compartment in the corner of the small room, "The block has electricity, the water heater should work, but I don't know about the rest."
"You have to help me." Farosa observed for a moment, "I don't know what a 'water heater' is; it seems that your way of bathing is different from ours."
"How do you do it?"
"First, we heat up water in a copper pot with firewood. Once the water boils, we pour it into the bathtub, adding it in batches. We keep some charcoal lit underneath the tub to keep it warm, and then we get in and wash."
"It's practically like boiling a person."
"We've progressed, progressed a thousand years," Farosa said, "Show me the new tricks you've learned."
Xu Yang went into the apartment's bathroom, where gray ceramic tiles covered the walls and the floor sloped southwest for drainage. On the wall was a square smart waterproof panel for controlling water temperature, volume, and pressure, with showers at every angle.
