Aw he's shy. Really shy. She barely touched him! Well, she pulls back a little, rests her head in her hand to watch him at a cocked angle. He's much more comfortable talking about the rift, which suits her needs just as well.

"A similar universe, to the rift's Manhattan, not to this one," she says with a vague gesture at the ocean. "Embarrassingly I... sort of got myself pulled in." She gives him a halfhearted grin. "Moving between universal plains was sort of a project of mine, been working on it for a long time, and as soon as I succeeded, I was stuck. Rift won't let me back out." She sighs, momentarily soured by the memory, and pushes it away. "But there's a lot of good people there, smart people, we're working on a way out."