"Much," Pyotr agrees, surveying the space. "I can work with this." Stripped to the floorboards like this, it closely resembles his flat in Town-on-Gorkhon -- minus the boarded-up windows of course, which he is not planning to replicate. He picked this apartment because of the natural lighting, actually.

"Thank you. I'd never been able to accomplish all this by myself, certainly not so quickly."