Cricket settles back down in Haru's lap.

"New York Times archive is more than I had to go on, you want to give me a more precise date and spell your name for me?"

Sure, he can do that.

Anything about a guy by that name disappearing if he searches the New York Times archives?

There is indeed an article about the disappearance of the junior reporter and grandson of the owner of the New York Times, Lucien 'Tunnard' Ochs Sulzberger. More than one article actually - there was a sizable search for him that ultimately went nowhere.

"Yeah, here you are -" He holds the laptop up for Lucien to read.

"Ah."

Lucien reads for a bit.

"...I suppose both my parents would be dead by now."

"Yeah. If you knew any small children you were fond of there is an outside chance but it's very outside."

"None in particular."

"Do you have a way of proving that you are this guy, for anyone who'll only put the work into figuring out what's up if they're really sure you're not a hoax? I saw you appear, but teleporter espers are a thing, so that's not conclusive."

"Uh, one of those articles mentioned a recent photograph for reference - can you see the original paper and not just the text?"

"Probably." Dig dig.

It's sort of a terrible photo but it's definitely Lucien.

Haru pulls his phone and takes an up to date picture of Lucien to corroborate. "Alrighty. My agent's looking for somebody who works with historical textiles and will have a guess if your stuff will survive the washing machine and know how to hock it. I can put you up for the short term but with no idea if there's about to be a thousand temporally displaced persons I don't want to be too committal about it, but, like, don't worry for at least a week about food and shelter. What're your most pressing questions?"

He has sort of forgot all his pressing questions...

"Uh, can I use one of those devices to look at the Times archives myself?"

"I don't have a spare but take a seat and you can have my laptop for a little bit."

Sure, he can do that.

"How do I..."

"You move up and down to change what part of the content is displayed like so, and if you want to interact with something on the page you wiggle your finger like this till this shape here is over it, for example, voila, and then you tap. So that's how you'd go to any of these dates, for example, or turn the virtual page."

Lucien can get the idea well enough. He proceeds to navigate through recent history with one finger, very carefully tapping and dragging things, sometimes needing to do so multiple times. 

Haru keeps an eye on the use of his laptop but does not otherwise interfere. He'd want to read the future news about his disappearance too.

It's pretty unnerving.

"Is it possible for me to look at other news?" 

"Yeah, from when?"

"Uh - if this was a physical archive I'd flip through quickly looking for large headlines maybe. I just want to start getting... caught up on what happened in the past century."

"For that I think maybe Wikipedia, not the newspaper." He finds the Wikipedia article on the twentieth century for him.

Lucien stares at the picture of the Earthrise taken on the moon at the top of the page for several seconds.

.... Why is this the thing that he's fighting back tears about???? He does not understand.

What if he scrolls down and attempts to read instead of crying in front of this very kind stranger.