"He's my cousin's kid and he's not old enough to run off on purpose. I want to take him home."

"How old is he?"

"Four."

"Name?"

"Mar."

...hm. "And how'd he come to run off?"

"Not sure. Might've been taken."

"Do you have, like, a suspect, here -"

"What's it matter if I do?"

"If you know exactly when he disappeared I can find out what happened but if he just was noticed missing after possibly hours that's much harder."

"He was with his mother when she died. I only know the date but I could narrow it down to a couple hours if I talked to the right people."

"Not quite narrow enough. Well, let's see."

...it's Jak.

"I have good news and bad news."

He recognizes Jak and frowns slightly. "Let's hear the bad news first."

"Your nephew time traveled to the past and grew up there."

"That's a pretty incredible story."

"Yes, but the good news is he's fine and around and you can go catch up with him. He goes by Jak now."

"I'll talk to him. Well, for that I'll tell you light eco is real and there's a lot of it on this planet. Even a vent or two. There's just not any near here."

"Cool, where is it instead?"

"Other places. I hear there's monks with a stockpile of it in a temple out on a desert island."

"...aesthetic. Okay. Did you want to know anything else?"

"I want to know what the metal heads are up to, whether Haven's planning to expand, and how to summon demons."

"Metal heads are going to colonize another planet, if they are they haven't told me where to put buildings yet, and that's a four-credit university course in the general case."

"How much would the four-credit course cost me?"

"A lot, my time is in high demand."

"Eh, I'm not so much of an intellectual anyhow. For the rest of it - why don't you ask me something, I know a lot about this city and not a lot about what you want to know."