"The... Everything a dictatorship is not. Freedom. Peace. Justice."

"I don't actually know that much about Earth politics in 1994, I'm not from here and the heres I'm sort of from are way in the future. But freedom and peace and justice sound good and I like the people I met here and they didn't lie to me, so that's something."

She nods. "Anyway, what I meant was that... even if you're not a grownup, if you're part of the Protectorate they will think it's war," she says, enunciating "Protectorate" carefully.

"So probably I should've thought of that before doing stuff for the Protectorate. Ugh."

"I don't know. Maybe. Maybe you could convince them anyway."

"...the censorship I could maybe fix without convincing anyone, I can just drop a proper 23rd century internet on you and then hand out thumbnail computers left and right..."

"That could help," she nods. "But I think they have a thinker who can do things to... the media?"

"...yikes."

"He is good at it but maybe he won't be good with the internet."

"Probably depends how exactly he works. Do you know anyone who knows more about this -"

"The heroes? Library of Alexandria probably does."

"They'll probably tell me not to overthrow the government of Brazil but I wanna overthrow the government of Brazil."

"...and put what there instead?"

"What I actually want to do is just make them let people leave. And maybe make a nice place for people to leave to, or will this country take all of them?"

"I don't know. They took me."

"Good."

"Yeah. It's why I want to be American so much. They didn't need to, but they helped me, and this is what they are."

Nod. "So if I figure out how to make Brazil stop being a dictatorship they probably won't be mad at me."

"They won't, I'm sure."

"Cool." Bounce bounce. "Do you want a thumbnail computer, I don't know if they're intuitive for people from 1994 and I should probably know that before I make them the foundation of my anti-censorship program."

"...sure? What's a... thumbnail?"

Here is a little piece of plastic that fits over her fingertip like a false nail - "tap it against a table or something -"

...she tries that.

There's a holographic display with a keyboard and screen!

She blinks. "How do I—use it?"