She had no idea what he was talking about in terms of biospheres and phenomena. Clearly he was a scientist or a researcher or something, to use those words so easily. It reminded her a little bit of Tony Stark, who’d also talked like that sometimes. This bloke was much less interested in hitting on her, though, at least so far.

“Immigrant’s a word for it,” she agreed. “I’ve heard ‘arrival’ too, and ‘outsider’. But yeah, I’m definitely not from around here. It was Paris, 1997 for me, and then it wasn’t.”