"Partially," Mikumo says rather straightforwardly, because it was somewhat obvious that Codi didn't have experience with aliens and it did prompt her to go further down this topic route. But it's not the only reason, at least. "But I'm also curious to know how many different...timelines, I suppose, or dimensions, people are coming from. Yours would be the third different history of Earth I've heard so far."

Mikumo's is a devastating enough history that it kind of stands out when someone's Earth doesn't align with it, but even then, the other two she's heard about so far have major distinctions from each other as well. Considering dimensional travel isn't really practical where she comes from - even folding bears a risk of getting stuck in a dimensional rift - the fact that people have been pulled in from across dimensions here feels like a significant marker of the kind of technology the Sylphid have access to.