"I'm no geologist and I only half understood that, but ... I gotta say, I'm relieved to hear an explanation that doesn't include magic.

"I like to take some comfort in the fact that planets and universes don't disappear without some quantifiable science involved." He picks up a very fancy-looking emerald coffee cup and turns it in his hands. "And then I land here and ... well. Goddamn wizards and demons and shit."