[He grins at her roguishly. As first meetings go, making out in the street goes a long way toward not being terribly shy or reserved around each other. They had quite soundly traversed that territory.]

I try to look on the bright and mildly amusing side. The universe I came from was nearly as strange as this one, but with a semblance of normalcy, all the strange things hidden. There were times when the fate of that reality depended partially on my apparent cheerfulness in dire and depressing circumstances. I suppose I have simply become rather practiced at it.

If I might ask, what was the world you came from like?