It was even more crazy because I really didn't...I didn't realize any of this stuff was possible. I don't think it was possible, until a year or so before this happened. Everything was normal. Space travel was something you saw on TV, time travel was just in movies, people couldn't run faster than the speed of sound or fly or turn into poison gas or whatever. It was just normal people, doing normal things. Then everything changed. My head was spinning, trying to keep up.

[He shrugs, and he exhales sharply, eyes sinking shut for a moment.]

And yeah. Ex-fiancée.