"I'm sorry.. I had no intention to thorn you." A'kin shakes his head, ears flattened back anxiously.

"The experience you described should not, could not, happen where I'm from without active and powerful intervention. This place seems to either be operating under a very different system of metaphysics than my world's, or else putting a great deal of energy into subverting them... but what you've spoken of your world is curious to me too, if less unnerving. I don't know what I can take for granted anymore."