[He fidgets a little as he follows and talks. Doctors and hospitals have never been a favorite thing of his. The fact that this one is so under the radar doesn't help either.]

Er, well, see...I've been time-traveling for a few hundred years, and apparently that screws up your body. I mean, I knew it would when I started doing it, but I don't know how it's messed up my body, or exactly what's wrong, aside from the fact that I have this crappy cough that comes and goes. ...I kinda thought I got rid of it when I got here, but I got it back after the whole Soviet thing.