"What kind? You can put up a bounty for monsters if you want them caught, usually that's the only time anyone specifically hauls a monster from a dungeon or takes it alive outside of one, and I don't know exactly how picky you can be about the kind of dragon you want in what time frame but I expect you're going to be mega rich."

"I think I'm not going to put up that bounty until I have a better idea of how well the general thing is going to work, and I'm going to do some research into how specific things get and so on, but--Western, generally, the kind with all of arms and legs and wings and a long neck."

"The London ones actually had six legs and four wings each."

"Huh. You know what I might do is just, like, put up a picture of what she looked like last time, and be like, 'as close to this as manageable.'"

"I volunteer as photographer. I audited a class in it."

"Oh, neat! If we're doing a lot of this I might want to buy you a fancier camera specifically for the purpose. But we'll see how good the phone camera is, first, actually I'll probably be blown out of the water just by that because 1999."

"I've got a hundred twenty megapixels. Which doesn't matter for just putting the pictures on my blog but I want to preserve the possibility of them being useful for research that involve minutely analyzing how light in dungeons works or something so I save all the really high rez versions."

"A hundred and twenty--doesn't mega mean million."

"Yep! It is a lot of pixels. Though other factors also matter, there's a lot of software going on and I needed to be picky about that because some phones make far too many assumptions about what you might be photographing to be good for dungeon documentation."

"Huh. I do not know things about phone software."

"I don't know a lot but I know more than timeline displaced Nineties Kids. Phones have all their features silo'd in various applications, to a greater extent than a computer does - phones are basically just little computers with cameras in them now, the underlying functions of the hardware have converged a lot, but people use them differently and prioritize different things about their programs, like phones you usually operate by poking the screen and a computer will still have a keyboard and either a mouse or something standing in for one."

"Interesting. I predict I'm going to have fun playing with that."

"Your phone will be there... any minute now, actually, though I'm not sure I can walk you through getting it set up over this call."

"Mm. Oh, do you know when your mom's likely to be home, and how much explaining I'm going to have to do?"

"When she comes straight home from work it's at like 16:00 but she usually doesn't. I've texted her about you but not at length and she hasn't called back to get more detail."

"So I may or may not need to do explaining but she is also not going to show up soon enough to conveniently help with the phone, got it."

"Right. I will probably be able to part with Cricket in about forty minutes but he's not amazingly tech savvy."

"And he doesn't like me."

"He'd be doing me a favor but I cannot guarantee good customer service."

"Dragging him away from someone he likes to someone he dislikes for a task he's not very good at isn't something I would ask for."

"If I were you I'd feel pretty urgent about having the phone up and running but maybe you'll be able to figure it out out of the box."

The doorbell rings; maybe it's the phone.

"Hang on a sec." She goes to answer the door. 

A guy in a hi vis vest hands her a little box and then jogs off to return to his van.

She returns to the landline. "Got a little box. I'm assuming there's a Star Trek phone in it." Time to investigate box. 

"Star Trek had tricorders and communicators as separate objects."

The box comes open once she's figured out the order of operations on what to pull apart from what, and inside: phone, charger, instruction manual.