"'The most simple explanation is probably the correct one'," he quotes, as he manages to find the couch without banging his shin on the lounge table, and sits heavily in it so he can rub his face briefly. "I'd be open to hearing anything simpler than being whisked thirty years into the future, placed into a new state, if not country or even world w-with an apparently already-established family, none of whom understand this place any better, manipulating our situations from home in a way that- that simply shouldn't be possible, I-I don't doubt for you as well, than..."

He lifts his right hand in a helpless gesture at their situation. "Well. Someone exceedingly powerful fucking with us solves all of that rather neatly. It's happened to me before, actually, so I'm not... completely unfamiliar with the concept."