[Terrible definitely becomes the new normal. Quentin's life used to be pretty boring and average, before magic. Becoming a magician was a dream come true, but with it came pain, loss, failure, and eventually death. So outside of his initial panic coming here? Quentin bounced back quickly. No one's tried to kill him yet. See, that's an up side.

But he can't assume that he knows where she's from, or if this is all a shellshock for her in a way harder to come back from. It's why he is trying to be as helpful with information and gentle as possible.]

Yeah. It's a new world, IDs are important to exist in it. We wouldn't get that far without them.

[He puts fingers toward the scar on his skull, where the implant went in.]

This was crazy intrusive, whoever put it in, but it's also necessary to live here. Everything works through the neural implants, pretty sure living in this technology would be impossible without it.