"Right," he says with a nod. "Sun goes around a whole turn, that's a day. And the world's definitely a sphere. I've never sailed all the way around it myself, that's pretty hard to do, but it's obvious it all connects up or none of our navigation tools would work."

Poor guy must have come from a world without the sort of knowledge he takes for granted and is having it all thrown at him at once. But Rosinante is happy to explain as much as he can, even if that isn't really all that much. Having been on Ephrim's end in a dozen conversations just like this since his own arrival, he can completely sympathize.