What sort of world did Jon come from? Cal has to wonder, especially when he's been told that even from his own galaxy, people didn't come from the same timeline, and that alone was baffling.

"That's probably a safe assumption," he says. "The Agrii are pretty certain that these particular storms are deadly to them but not to us, and these things have kept them from home. I've only recently experienced one for myself- it's dangerous to be caught in for the wind and lightning alone, but it also made you see things. People you might have known." And potentially send you falling off dangerous cliffsides if you were stupid like they were to track the storm into the mountains.

"...and it affected...well, special abilities and powers that someone might have, if they were caught in it."