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	Jack said, ‘My name isn’t actually Jack, and my job doesn’t permit me to divulge my true identity. I can’t tell you a lot about the specific task I perform for the company I work for. But that can depend on what i learn about any given world. In other words, I can’t at this point tell you much about why I’m here. But I guess I can tell you some things about my world.’  

Jack paused while Amber leaned forward, her elbows on the table, eyes narrowed with intrigue. 

‘When I was just a boy,’ continue Jack, ‘my world was…’ he thought about the best word to use, but shaking his head he seemed dissatisfied with the result, saying, ‘…extravagant.’ He paused a little longer to better arrange his thoughts, then added, ‘My world was massive. Billions of people. Cities with buildings as tall as mountains. We had vehicles that moved faster than anything you would have, powered by engines. Machines, you might call them. Some of these vehicles could fly, others were able to reach the moon, even the stars in the sky. It was an era of advanced communication. Information. Convenience. My people, we…. We had these devises called computers. We could use them to find out anything we wanted to know, anything at all, to a point, and just at the touch of a button. We could communicate instantly with anyone, no matter how far away they were. We even developed small handheld devices that we could carry around with us to make this even easier.’ 

‘Wait,’ Amber stopped him there, raising one hand with a small wave, her face epitomizing fascination. ‘You mean things other than normal senses? Instruments of magic? And what do you mean by… [i]stars[/i]?