[ His laugh is a pleasant surprise, and she smiles in return, the corners of her eyes crinkling. ]

And you have the advantage of knowing a future beyond my own, no matter which time I claim. It was only a few weeks after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon that I traveled to the past a second time. For all I know, Mars is colonized in the year you've come from.

[ She wouldn't be surprised given how much she's learned from other people either about their own worlds or a future on her own she can't wrap her mind around. ]