To James, Alistaire was exactly how he imagined a businessman to look, which was surprising since most of what he had to go on was what his parents and others from before the war had told him. Of course, the man seemed pretty overconfident in the fact that James wasn't a potential thread given how he dismissed his guard, but then again James hadn't actually given reason to fear so he didn't dwell on it.

"Please call me 'James', and I am from the future. Although, I'm beginning to doubt that it is yours," said James. Something had to have gone wrong with the machine when he entered the portal. It was the only answer that he could think of.