For a moment he stared at her, scarred lips gaping open slightly and closing. Monsters making cracks in the world. So, what, he'd fallen through? What kind of monster - how big did it have to be - to make cracks in whole worlds? So that two people from two different ones could fall into the same place?

"Monsters making cracks in the world. I think - I think I might see if there's a way I can go back to the crashing the war rig. Any chance of that?"

He was just a War Boy.

"I shouldn't be here. I'm not - I'm not anybody. I can't fight some kind of monster-thing. World-breaking monster thing. Magic things. There's no magic where I'm from. No flying. No impossible things."