"What? Oh. Not this city. I'm from Mechanicsburg. Someone came into my town and set iff a time bomb, Whole town is time locked. I went to Paris to try to find Doctor Zardeliv, since he's the foremost expert on time and temporal anomalies, when I wound up here instead. I met two men both claiming to be the doctor, but from another universe, neither really much help, and one of them threatened me after giving me an idea how to proceed...." She was still irritated by that. She shook her head. "But if you actually travel through time, you can help! I mean, I have Van Rjin's notes on Prende's Lantern and the Muse of Time, but it's been slow going getting through it all."

Someone was over the moon excited.

"But now you're here and you can HELP!"