Would you rather I arrive stripped to the waist and bound in adamantine chains? I'm not asking you to forget - simply that you judge based on the present and not what, to you, is the past. Keep an open mind, as it were.

I know. This will sound odd, but I've met him here before. Apparently, from a different time.

Early afternoon, around two hours after noon. A precise time was not set, but that seems as good a time as any.