My chief interest has been the guardian itself. Apparently, it's a Pokemon known as Celebi that has the ability to travel through time-though I rather doubt that it has the ability to control time outside of that.

Professor, to be more precise.

I suppose that's true, yes. Furthermore, we're all in a situation where we're being forced outside our comfort zones to begin with, so it's only natural we'd interact with people who we wouldn't have reason to know otherwise.