[Michael makes a hum of understanding at the comparison. The only part that would surprise him is that a society like Solvunn, so similar to the werewolves and seemingly still on good terms, would be the ones to push them out. If it'd been a hostile takeover, he'd expect it to be the work of the Free Cities and their advanced technology or the controlling Thorne.]

Difficult to imagine what the situation at the time might have been with an object like the Singularity in play.

[He hasn't been here long enough to know if its reactivity has patterns over the decades, or over the centuries. There was that shared eight hundred year-long experience, of course, but how much of it had been real?

Michael glances over at Claire as she starts taking notes. She could have asked him to bring another pencil, too, he thinks.]

Do I seem like the type of person to make an insincere offer?

[What else are friends for if not for keeping you company? Of course he's game to help out at the next dig site.]

What do you plan to do with all these artifacts you've been unearthing?