[ Not something he's been sharing. A nod, understanding -- Wash won't share it either. He doesn't seem at all startled by the idea of someone from the future, he has, after all, spoken with people from the past and all sorts of other things such as. ]

A friend of mine here might be wondering why I look almost ten years older than he remembers. [ Just a little dryly -- that relationship is. Complicated. For a lot of reasons, related to their timeline discrepancies. ] It's been something to get used to.

[ Something he's curious about, though. Watching him. ]

You know what happens here, then.