"It might take a bit, but I get the feeling it'll be easier to let him come to you in any case..."

That's how friends work probably, whatever.

"Oh- yeah of course I do. I mean I say 'of course', but I guess you haven't had a chance to get the run-down on 'falling from another world' and..."

Hold on a second, while the rest of his brain catches up to that name. Emporio pauses. Blinks.

Blinks again.

"............This is going to sound weird, but what year was it for you?"