"This place is the first I've heard about other planets, too. I'm used to looking at the stars, but I didn't think there were actually living people around them."

Not on them, he's learned that. Too hot, can't be people, those stars are like his world's sun. But around them, on worlds like his. Except most, apparently, aren't much like his at all.

"And the thing about people being from different times, too, who would've thought that could happen?"