[ His expression twists, like he's just barely absorbing the combined insult to his intelligence and being dismissed because of how he looks. It's been over two years since he made that mishap on his way back to 2019. He's heard it all, and it still manages to get under his (obnoxiously young) skin.

Telling her doesn't mean she'll believe him, but he's been knocking on a lot doors, and he's at his limit to what he can tolerate. ]

I know because I'm a sixty-year-old man with a lifetime of experience in how it works. [ In theory and in practice. He's made every mistake and he knows exactly how this goes wrong. ] It's far more likely the village rewrote your memories to make you complacent, so you don't realize that you've been thrown out of time and break the cycle.