It's not like we get it either. Like I said, there's some kinda energy harvesting thing I heard people talking about, but how's that even work? It ain't like the credit cards where it's just hard to explain, it's more like a totally foreign language to me! Or, I dunno, rocket science—

[Oh, right. He catches that a second too late and laughs, a tad embarrassed.]

Buuut I guess they don't got rockets in 1890 either. Either way, man, I'm as lost as you are! They don't tell us everything. Probably they don't want us getting the advantage, who knows?

[He hates it, but there's some freedom in it too; he doesn't have to think about what he doesn't know yet. He just has to keep his ear to the ground as the colonists figure stuff out little by little.

Finally it occurs to him that he hasn't introduced himself yet.]

I'm Leon Kuwata, by the way! And totally not crazy! I got kinda distracted trying to fill you in on all that . . .