[ Now it's one thing to hear that people can be from different times, but another thing to actually hear it stated in such plain numbers. Vanessa knows it isn't a lie (what would be the point?) but it baffled even her, and she is one who has walked through worlds between worlds.

Contemplating what this could mean in regards to her theories of the City, she may as well take advantage of this woman's willingness to talk up such things. Easy, frivolous matters first, Vanessa. Isn't that how 'friendship' is made? She doesn't have many (or any) friends who are women, but that may be no accident. ]

Certainly not the America that I have heard tell of, so I have no choice but to believe you that it must mirror a different time. I would wonder which poets have become the most treasured in the year you arrived from, then.