"It's a communicator, of sorts. This village can be... technologically limited, but those journals are among the more advanced technology at our disposal."

[And how long he's been here... oh, that's a complicated question.]

"The first time I came here was... roughly two and a half years ago, by the local perspective, but I was sent home last year and returned several months ago. But time can be confusing here. People come from different places and times- even different realities."

[... And he should say it at some point.]

"I arrived from four years after... after Azure."

[After she died, but he's not ready to say those words. Not now. Not in his state.]