"Uhh." It's not as if he was keeping track, but that Josh is asking, he's trying to comb through wich days he was working on it and for how long in his mind. "Five or six hours."

And all that time invested with the result being only 'marginally' better, too. If you haven't gotten the idea of what you were in for before, Joshua, you are now. This is going to take a long time.

"So, to start with, I'm going to be handing you some tools to carry and telling you what they are." Which he does for about half a dozen pieces of equipment that he anticipates they'll be using today. Many of them will have an earth equivalent that he'll be familiar with. Notably the spanners as wrenches and drivers as screwdrivers.

"You go carry those out and I'll be right behind you."