"Hard to verbalize, that just seemed like a very charmingly American thing to say."

Lucien is making a friend!

"I've generally spent a lot of time thinking about ways to use the leverage I have - well had - to improve things on a broader scale. I suppose I will have to think of new plans."

After sitting with June for five hours Haru hangs up the phone and comes home.

It is a very informative five hours!

"No reports of other time travelers so far, so I am prepared to outlay somewhat more resources than I would if there were going to be two hundred of you. Bought you a laptop," Haru says, handing it over. "So I can have mine back without separating you from Wikipedia."

"Oh! Thank you. I am not sure how expensive a laptop is but I'll repay you as soon as I can."

"I make esper money, don't worry about it, I wouldn't buy them for two hundred of you but one's no big deal."

"I would really rather repay you.... though on reflection that might be related to how I am used to be fantastically wealthy."

"I think the New York Times has changed ownership a few times since you were in line for it and it is probably not going to revert to you."

"Yeah I don't think I'd want it to - it's not really my place to run it anymore. If that makes sense."

"The business has presumably changed a lot."

"Yeah."

"I wonder if there's a way to parley being from the past into something with the ability to improve the world,"

"Personally I go around making esper money and then donate a lot of it to charity but if you have something more direct in mind... not sure, historians will be interested in you certainly but they aren't known for directly applying their knowledge to comfort the afflicted."

"I wonder if there's some sort of important cause that's gone out of fashion that I can put back in the public eye with whatever attention I get for being a time traveler. Talk about how the future is great but people have forgotten this one important thing."

"Well, nothing that seems obvious to me, but my main claim to knowing anything about history is that I like old books."

"Mm...who do you donate money to?"

"Mostly the Against Malaria Foundation but also some esper and dungeon research guys."

Lucien would like to know specifics about all of these things!

They've all got websites and because Haru has sat with June for hours today he's going to get those.

There are other websites besides Wikipedia?? This is such a good future.

"Wikipedia's a great first port of call for somebody as fish-out-of-water as you, other things you're more likely to want context you don't have and can't get by clicking a convenient link, but yes, there are loads of websites."

"Is there a list somewhere?"

Snort. "What an idea. No."

"Is it because they are too many? I really hope it's because there are too many."

"Too many and not at all organized. But you can search through them, at least the ones that are linked - like blue Wikipedia text - to anything else." Behold, Google.