"Wow. And you think your sophisticated world-hopping fish people came from here?"

That was not what he'd been expecting, Waldo. He pauses briefly, glancing around at the street and the locals before turning back to Waldo and offering him a shrug.

"I---I mean, I'm getting a real turn of the century vibe from this place, but you might be on to something. Maybe there's an underground society of technologically advanced fish people we're not seeing."