"Should I stay here while you get it?"

"You can come along if you want to."

Oh good, he will do that then.

She goes into the Jaillais section and pulls a random book. "Do I have to hold the badge for it to work?"

"Yeah," He takes it off and offers it to Annie.

She takes a step back, pulls her gloves out of her coat pocket, puts them on, sits on the floor, checks the gloves for holes, and then accepts the badge.

She's so careful and the gloves look really hot on her, apparently.

... he should probably do a better job of controlling his face.

Badge.

Book?

It takes a moment but then the text changes all at once.

She checks her glove again. Offers the badge back to him.

The book changes back once she's handed it over.

"Okay, was there any other evidence you wanted to present?"

"My uniform is back at the hotel I'm staying at and might be made with unfamiliar methods or something I don't know. All my other things were packed in a bag that didn't make it here. You could take the translator apart but if it breaks I won't be able to communicate... maybe there's some open math problem I know a proof for? But I don't really think we covered anything obvious that would qualify in highschool. You could also ask me questions and see if my story is consistent."

"-oh I have synthetic antiviruses in my blood, though I guess that would require a lab to verify at this tech level. And maybe my DNA would be obviously from a different species but I'm not confident about that."

"What species are you?"

"Human."

"...we're human, around here."

Nod.

"Could just be the translator using your word - but it wouldn't be the first time there have been humans on a planet other than Earth."

"Okay. And you don't want me to tell anyone about genetic engineering," she says, "because - I don't understand why exactly, how does it kill people? There are simpler ways to kill anybody you can get in a position to genetically engineer them, surely?"

"Uh, so when it was perfected on Earth some scientists used it to create augmented humans who supposedly had some sort of emotional issues - though possibly that was just how they were treated I find the official story at least a bit suspect - anyways uh. The augments ended up overthrowing several governments and setting up dictatorships and several billion people died in the ensuring conflicts. I think this probably could have been avoided but empirically it wasn't and genetic engineering is still illegal over three centuries later where I'm from."

"...that's sufficiently specific I'd be pretty surprised if it happened twice."

"Most people where I'm from think the broad strokes inevitably result from genetic engineering. I think they're wrong but.... I don't know, there are a lot of other people and completely ignoring them all insisting something is super dangerous makes me ... nervous."

"I... guess I wasn't very likely to go into specifically genetic engineering without your involvement, so I'm not exactly cutting off the world from advancing in that direction if I agree to keep it to myself, but it doesn't sound like you even have technical details sufficient to reconstruct the work, and it's not something that is personally private to you such that I'd keep it secret out of general decency, and it doesn't sound like there's a way to conduct more of an investigation into what went wrong there, from here."

"I think I know some of the key advancements, though not the details, it might be enough to help someone know what to research... um. My instincts are telling me I should trust your judgement about using the information wisely, and I can't tell if that's because of the mind control or not."

"It probably is, but you kind of have to do that anyway, it's not like you know a lot about how reliably I keep promises."

"Yeah. That's a fair point."

"So um. Are you in fact okay with keeping the details I know secret?"