The Americans are...odd. They had no right to make those sorts of decisions for you. It may be the terrible events that really shape one's character, but knowing that doesn't make them one bit easier. I don't look at 'movies', they're not very appropriate, but I think it's only messing with time if you double back on yourself. As I'm concerned, nothing after 1849 has happened yet, so why shouldn't I try to shape my future to my liking? Everyone else does, after all.
I have spent the better part of a year in another realm outside time. I was not so...philosophical about things then; I thought they had kidnapped me - to use me against my father, you see. I got used to it, eventually. What are the number sequences? Are they patterned?
It isn't an imposition. I haven't anything else to do, really. I like the idea of invisible pie, that's a splendid trick. Maybe you might show me where to get it, and we could sit and have tea and pie together before you collect the machines?