He saw her ears and didn't call her an animal, so he must not be from her Japan. Saturday nods, accepting this. Now would be a germane time to note that Saturday does clearly appear to be of East Asian/South Pacific extraction; in her world, Japan responded to the rise of magic by going full nationalism - again - and expelling every "nonhuman." It's not something Saturday remembers, but the older people in her community do.

"Eh," she says, instead of all that. "You can get further. Like right now. We're about equidistant from Yasoinaba and Seattle, by my reckon."