"I wasn't 'till I came here. But there were creatures from outer space, once. At the mill." He makes a face. "At least, that's what the man in the velvet coat said they were. They could change themselves to look like whatever they wanted."

He shakes his head. "But that was there, and this is here, which is ... different. They say it's another dimension, which I'm still not really understanding much. But there's all kind of queer things going on: no money, everyone makes things with their minds out of some sort of ... chaos energy? It's all still mostly Greek to me."

It wasn't, actually, of course, but it was astounding how much you could find out about someone by pretending you weren't as smart as them.