The past? To speak of what was, for her, the present, surely the young man must be from an era similar to the one she had been summoned to.

"I am a knight, yes," she replied with a half-nod, half-bow. While one of her own knights would have bowed more deeply, the familiar protocol was that the King's own salute differentiated him... or her, in Saber's case.

"As to the time I am from, it would depend upon what you consider current. I was summoned for the Holy Grail War during what was for me the distant future, over a thousand years after my time."