“Hi. I’m from the future.”

This caught me by surprise, but only momentarily. Of course the hellenic beauty who had been stealing glances at me from across the library was a hallucination. Confirmation that the funny taste on the donuts that morning really was evidence that they had been denatured with something insidious. LSD , maybe? Or some more exotic designer drug never before-

“Can I sit here?”

Her words were like a penny on the tracks of my mind. She took my suspicious glare as a ‘yes’ and settled into the chair opposite me, casually dropping a stack of books onto the coffee table between-

“I kind of need your help.”

Of course it wasn’t a coffee table. There’s no food or drink allowed in the library.

“I’ve been watching you all day…”

Tell me something I don’t know. Someone is always watching. Damn them.

”... and I think you’re the only person in this era who’d even consider believing me.”

Now that was a fallacy. My subconscious isn’t very clever. Only a hallucination would say that.