( wow, there are some...interesting versions of Earth out there. in some ways, she's really glad she got to live on a non-magical iteration of the planet. she considers carefully what he's said, though, and wonders if maybe there were mutants in his world? maybe something different had happened, the Soviets or the Americans had tested nuclear weapons too close to their own people. )

Huh. Real séances. Imagine that. He didn't actually spew ectoplasm from various orifices, I hope.

...Your CO didn't happen to get too close some radioactive materials?