[That doesn’t mean the woman isn’t from the same world as him, but it is another mark against the possibility. Still, he feels a kinship in her thoughtful answer—or, at least, less of a threat—and carefully, he smiles.]

It is, isn’t it? An unsettling one, too, but beautiful things can be unsettling sometimes. [A beat.] Given we know so little of each other, or of ourselves, for that matter, perhaps we might start over? Even if we would be enemies at home, nothing says we must be so here.