"That's a little better."

"All right. We can head upstairs whenever you're ready, then, Miranda."

"Why upstairs?"

"There's a rule against mind-control in the main bar area."

"That is... sensible."

"There is not a rule against mindreading. I don't know if Occlumency protects against extradimensional flavors of mindreading but I thought you'd want to know."

"...yeah, thanks."

He picks up his 2179 reading and waits for her to make a move upstairs.

Miranda goes and quizzes the bar for a bit and then takes a deep breath and goes stairward.

Stairward. "Sorry. This is nicer than the way I picked it up."

"Yeah but you were doing it just because you were curious."

"I was assuming it was because it's the sort of skill you need if you're going to do anything high profile."

"Yep."

"How far up are we going?"

"Fifth floor."

Climb climb.

Here is his room. It is pretty plain. It has the weird 2179 clothes folded neatly on a chair.

"What are those?"

"What people wear in the future, apparently. I summoned a demon to test if it worked and Cam suggested I not make it apparent that I am a wizard from 1802. I apparently pass as a very eccentric and oblivious citizen of the future."

"The demon propositioned him."

"'hit on me', I think is the 2179 phrasing."

"Is that how you tell that you passed?"

"No, I recited the whole conversation to Cam and he said it wouldn't leave suspicion - she also didn't seem suspicious, but I'm less confident in my read on demons from the future."

Nod.

"Imperio."