[ He’s going to feel like such an idiot if this is some kind of elaborate hoax, but her confusion over his phone seems genuine, so he’s just going to assume there’s some kind of bizarre time-travel shenanigans at work and roll with it. Not that he’s ever met a wizard who can actually travel through time, but his best friend has a wolf living in his hat so. Stranger things have happened. ]

It’s a communication device, but it hasn’t worked since I got here.

[ He stows his phone back in his pocket. ] I think we kind of got off to a weird start. I’m Charlie.