"How's it feel?" he asked. "I mean, this place -- it's your future. Or, well, like a possible one. There's no way of telling if you got grabbed from the past or just a similar past. But that means it all pans out to this or might pan out to be like this. Everything the heroes in your time do."

He smiled a little smile.

"I don't even wanna know what kind of future my world has one thousand years from the present. I'd be terrified to find out what happens a just a year from the present."