Johannes doesn't find her instantaneously, but he does find her quickly. "Sadde! Welcome back." He squints briefly. "I would not have recognized you with that on."

"Hello! If I weren't a practitioner and unable to lie I think you would not believe where I spent the last six months or so."

"Considering that you didn't mention anything when you were here in the last definitely less than six months, sounds like a story. Why don't you come on in?"

His tower is visible if she looks toward the center of the demesne, but on the other hand, teleportation.

"I spent them in the forties," she explains when they get there.

"The forties as in the decade?"

"Those, yes."

"Impressive. How did you manage to spend six months in the wrong century?"

So she explains about the little monster that is, in fact, still eating critters and sent her to the past and got her sealed. And then she goes on to explain about how she invented money.

"Well. Impressive. Most of my clients aren't the type to use money, but I'll put the word out that I'm accepting it to see if they'll join in.

You said the Other was right where you left it?"

"Well, yes, I'm only dealing with it in two days."

"Right, it's just that if the Behaims said they'd keep an eye on it and make sure it didn't threaten anyone, I wouldn't expect it to be completely untouched. In their position I would have been trying to exploit it somehow."

"Well they got at least all my time out of it, but yes."

"That too. But it sounds like Malcolm Behaim hadn't hit upon that method of getting you back yet when he made the deal about the extortion, so it wouldn't surprise me if there was a second ulterior motive that had already occurred to him."

"Probably, but I know very little of chronomancy."

"There might be no way to know what they've done, short of asking."

"I might have enough goodwill to ask."

"If you want to let on that you suspect them. There probably isn't much that turns on it."

"Well, I don't expect them to have wanted to keep it a secret, it's an obvious leap to make."

"That might depend what they came up with. But it was already a good idea to assume everyone has unknown resources, so it's not as if it changes very much."

"Yeah. And by the way—" And she explains about the oath with the goblin she needs to fulfill.

"Well, that gamble paid off. Or will once you succeed, at least.

If you want you could even find the goblin early and challenge him directly. He fights your past self, your present self wins, and the others see you as the last one standing. Goblins respect that."

"Which would make his challenging me the day after tomorrow him looking for revenge? Or do you just mean challenge him and make him come fight me in two days?"

"The second. Saying "I will duel you tomorrow" is, well, traditional. And there's only the one fight where you know the outcome in advance."

"Heh. Yeah, makes sense. I was thinking of laying a trap, there, disguising a net with glamour so I could capture the other goblins after the fight was done, perhaps leave something the leader could trip on to fall into the Charybdis' mouth so I could say to have brought him down..."

He nods. "Beating the leader is mandatory, since you're forsworn otherwise. The trap is a good idea too. If you've just beaten their leader they'd probably be too cowed to attack, but you may as well have a backup plan."