"Rough times in the world?" Dan raises an eyebrow and curls his hands around the mug of tea again. He takes a deep breath. The smell of the ginger, rose and verbena is soothing, and the steam feels like it's warming him up from the inside.

"Folks generally don't float the idea of adapting to an undersea colony if everything's going according to hopes and expectations." Not to mention digging back in time to recreate heroes; the unspoken part, Dan figures, is that there aren't enough, or any, heroes thick on the ground in the present.