"I've learned just how serious temporal displacement is."

A long eighteen months ago.

"So yeah. I'm serious. Before I found myself here it was Commonwealth Year 10088. Which in Earth time is ..." He hesitates, making a mental calculation, because for a man from Tarn-Vedra, Earth reckoning was never his first way of dating. "5168."

He shakes his head.

"And you'd never have heard of my homeworld."