"Hello. It's nice to meet you."

Jingyi, who has tagged along, says something, and Sizhui plays, (Jing) (yi) (wants) (to) (know) (where) (you) (are) (from)

"I live in a city called New York in what seems to be another universe. My world has a Yangtze River too, and it's so far away from New York City that it doesn't matter if you go east or west, it's nearly the same distance around the world either way. Plus the alternate universe part."

There is a flurry of talk between the two, then, (That) (is) (very) (exciting) (light) (bearing) (lord) (says) (you) (can) (see) (the) (future) (and) (that) (is) (also) (amazing)

"Yeah, it's really cool. I do it for my job at home."

(Is) (what) (you) (see) (fated) (?)

"...no, that would be totally useless! I mean, sometimes I see things I can't change, but that's because they're things I can't change, like earthquakes, not because if I somehow acquired the ability to prevent earthquakes I'd be somehow stopped from using it."

(Well) (if) (you) (couldn't) (stop) (the) (future) (you) (would) (still) (have) (more) (time) (to) (prepare) (for) (the) (aftermath)

"I guess but that's not how my power works."

(How) (does) (it) (work)

"I see what would happen if I weren't using precognition."

(How) (much) (of) (what) (would) (happen)

"About an hour. I can make it longer with practice, it used to be less."

More flurried discussion. 

(Jing) (yi) (would) (like) (to) (know) (how) (long) (it) (could) (get)

"Some people can do years, but we don't know of an actual upper bound. How fast it gets longer will depend on how much I concentrate on that instead of other things I could learn."

(What) (else) (could) (you) (learn)

"I already have an eidetic memory and some stuff that makes my mind work better and more organizedly. I can talk to my brother telepathically, but not from here - I'm going to be working on that to see if I can make it work."

(That) (sounds) (so) (useful), he plays, looking at her admiringly. 

"Yeah! I like being a psion. Your thing seems cool too. I could learn to do translation but it'd take a long time. Some psions can see the past or see far away or, uh, do things with machines you probably don't have here."

(Translation) (is) (a) (niche) (use) (Inquiry) (is) (usually) (used) (to) (speak) (to) (the) (dead)

"...we can't do that. Dead people aren't - there, to talk to, as far as we can tell. In my world."

(You) (don't) (have) (ghosts) (?)

"Nope! Does everybody here leave a ghost? Must be crowded."

(No) (most) (people) (pass) (on) (quickly)

"Pass on -?"