"Oh. They're um...chemicals. I guess it's...pretty complicated, sorry."

At least Claude isn't accusing him of witchcraft which is what happened at home more often than not the second he started talking about stuff like this. He'll take it!

"Oh yeah, absolutely! I could bring so much to my people from here. Like electricity!! That would change everyone's lives for the better!"

That had always been a driving force for him, after all. Okay, most of it was to make his father proud of him, but he's got that now. He can focus on the betterment of his homeland. He just has to...get back there first.

"Apparently it was originally accessed through the gates. It went away like they all do, but this one...came back. I didn't get to witness it happening, it was always just...here for me. But yeah, definitely a different world, so they say...anyway."