"I bet it will be. I was hoping that we could compare the stars in order to figure out what direction your planet is in. Let me look some of those stars up on our maps."

They fiddle with their phone.

"... okay, so the ones you said moved are some of the closest stars. The missing one I can't find any mention of, which makes sense. The new ones ... I'm not sure. Depending on when you looked, one of them might be a structure in orbit, but the others are too northerly for that. So maybe your planet is quite nearby?"

Oh, he's pretty sure it's the same planet - the continents are similar, too, and the big differences all look like water level changes.

"Huh. But the stars aren't exactly the same, which is weird. Unless ... do you think you've traveled in time? Maybe you're from the future?"

Or the past, it's not strong evidence when someone could have taken it as crafting material but they don't have anything that seems like it could be the remains of a city. Neither of those would explain why one instance has crafting and the other doesn't, though.

"I was thinking that it seems harder to lose Crafting than it is to gain it," the person points out. "Although I guess that depends on how Crafting is transmitted. But if the continents aren't different enough for the cities to have been erased, it's definitely a little weird that you haven't seen any."

He's not sure crafting is transmitted, though of course he's going to try anyway. But at home the only time you find a Crafter who can't craft or a talking animal who can't communicate is when they have really serious cognitive impairments.

"Well, what do you know about the history of how new kinds of animal develop over time?"

Vesherti silently hopes that Traveler won't be too off-put by a conversation with what seems to be a focused-person. Then again, if Crafters don't really do names, the fact that they didn't introduce themselves might pass without notice.

Genecrafting has some interesting implications for that but he hasn't put much thought into it personally, why?