"I haven't run into the guy living here. The counterpart I met was in the world I was pulled from before I wound up here." Ed couldn't imagine their meeting here to be too different from how they had met in Riverview. IT should actually go better now that they both should know plenty about world-hopping.

If Erik plays his cards right he'll see that the Ed he's talking to now is much more likely to shove his fist in his face than turn around and storm out of the room. Considering how high strung he is right now, that possibility was a bit higher than normal.

"Mind if I ask you about this place?"