This is all very surreal for Cal, as well, though he rolls with it. That's something he's good at, after all, and if showing up on a different planet is what he has to deal with then he will.

But he also takes time to look after some of his new group, especially anyone who seems like a loner. It's how he finds a young woman, keeping to herself, so he sits down next to her and leans in to speak quietly. "We should start a roadshow. They've made me a traveling magician."