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There are things Jing Yi expects when he flies through the window to his rooms.
Like his rooms. Like the floor being where he expects. Like all the furniture being out of the way of anyone flying through a window.
He finds none of those things.
There may or may not be a crashing noise. Or a very undignified yelp.
"My undergraduate thesis was on the price of corn as a means of measuring historical inflation."
"I'd love to help, but I don't actually know the price of millet off the top of my head."
"Terrible! Why didn't you prepare to be a time traveler taken in by a pair of economists?"
"It's a deeply weird place, but there are a lot worse ways it could be deeply weird. Also microwaves are very good."
"We found the energy that pervades the universe and we used it to cook food more conveniently."
"I think the fact that I found out about it in Cascadia makes it Officially Cascadian. It's the Rules."
"Which means the year 2049 is officially Cascadian. And the Internet. And phones. And monotheism."
"Exactly! A far-future Cascadian traveled back in time to introduce monotheism to the world... whenever monotheism was actually invented."
"Even so-- I wouldn't have chosen to time travel anywhere, but there are worse places to end up."
"I know that look. He's going to try to get you to reconstruct a macroeconomic data set from literally anything you remember about the relative prices of things."
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