[He nods. It is a lot to take in, and it does her credit not to make assumptions.]

The pattern has been that we spend two months on each island. We've yet to return to any.

As for their strangeness... that may depend on where you hail from. Most of these places seem patterned after a world called Earth, which is not my own.

[He isn't sure about her. She doesn't quite speak like the other Earth folks, but she may just come from another version or time.]