"Small mercies."

"If the movie had been dangerous, it would have been a nightmare to contain."

"I assume occasional containment nightmares do happen -? Are any of those, uh, recoverable?"

"So far, yes. But it's always difficult and stretches our resources very thin."

"How's all this funded?"

"Military budgets, mostly. And powerful individuals who've been recruited to our cause our found out about it on their own."

"Military budgets openly, like, the President knows about it, or like embezzling for a good cause?"

"The president often knows. It's officially sanctioned, but carefully hidden so that you can inspect the military budget without it ever leading directly back to us."

"Often? You skip some presidents?"

"We try to tell some presidents and it goes poorly."

"Ah. How do you get around the Secret Service?"

"The majority of them also know what's going on and it's easier to influence the hiring of secret service personnel than it is to influence elections."

Miranda nods. "Besides the movie, which doesn't sound familiar, anything I might have heard of that's actually skip-related?"

He takes a moment to consider this. 

"Does your world have a Yellowstone National Park?"

"Yes."

"In my world, Yellowstone may or may not be a skip. We're not sure. Do you remember when you first heard of it?"

"I think I heard about it first when I was learning about volcanoes when I was eight but I'm sure I'd heard of it by the time I moved to the States for university."

"So before 2007, assuming you're remembering correctly?"

"Right. Is that weird, in most universes did it spring into existence in 2008 and everyone felt like they were just coincidentally finding out about it for the first time?"

"Not everyone, but everyone in the Foundation. Before 2007, not a single Foundation employee knew Yellowstone existed. That's plausible for personnel like me, who aren't from the U.S. But it's far less plausible for for the ones living in Wyoming. We still have no idea what happened."

"Is there any evidence that they used to know and then forgot - surely lots of people growing up in Wyoming visit it and there'd be some physical evidence?"

He shakes his head.

"None. No vacation photos, journal entries, school reports, nothing. Family members sometimes had heard of Yellowstone prior to 2007, but saw no reason to bring it up to the Foundation employee and generally could never remember the employee discussing it."

"Huh. This is the only known anomalous feature of Yellowstone?"

He nods.

"We've looked and found nothing."

"Maybe an anomaly was living in it, and then died or moved away."