2016. Goodness, this is a little unusual, isn't it? I've run into people from far in the past, but usually they're small children. Variants of myself or others I know. [And again, he laughs; the gleam in his eye is more innocent, the joy of a connection made or a theory confirmed.
Again, he indicates the Iwatodai door.] That one leads to, I suppose, "your" Iwatodai, in 2009. And that one—[he indicates the Tokyo door, the one he nearly took them through before she balked]—leads to Tokyo as I remember it, in the year 2016. Well, more or less.
[He gives her another, closer look. Those carefully wide eyes are a little telling; Kotone Shiomi-san would be far from the first here not to be all she seems.] So you'd be familiar with the green moon, the Dark Hour, things of that nature? Sorry, I don't mean to pry, it's just something of a professional hazard.
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Again, he indicates the Iwatodai door.] That one leads to, I suppose, "your" Iwatodai, in 2009. And that one—[he indicates the Tokyo door, the one he nearly took them through before she balked]—leads to Tokyo as I remember it, in the year 2016. Well, more or less.
[He gives her another, closer look. Those carefully wide eyes are a little telling; Kotone Shiomi-san would be far from the first here not to be all she seems.] So you'd be familiar with the green moon, the Dark Hour, things of that nature? Sorry, I don't mean to pry, it's just something of a professional hazard.