"I gathered you weren't just an average hawk, yes. For starters, there's no reasonable way you could have brought that deer to my doorstep without help, and the way you wanted privacy for our conversation gave me the impression you weren't likely to ask for outside assistance unless you had no other choice. Though I would have assumed magic, not technology. Still, it isn't that farfetched. The idea of an aeroplane would seem like magic to someone even a hundred years before my time."

Arthur C. Clarke and his famous three laws weren't written until almost three decades after Alastor's death, so the radio host wasn't likely to know them. Still, that third law was basic common sense.

"However, your...well, 'voice' for lack of a better term sounds quite young. I find it disturbing that so many alternate Earths that appear here rely on child soldiers."