[Armand turns a little pale, then bites his lip worriedly.] Perhaps I shouldn't have said that right out like that. I thought the others who knew you would have said.

Yes, this is not Earth. That's what I was told, and at night, the stars are very different from what I remember. We're in the far, far future as well, though no one knows how far, I don't think. [And he wouldn't be surprised to be wrong about that. He just doesn't remember hearing anyone say.]

Time is difficult, because it moves around so much here.