Something about that remark - about awful worlds - makes Jae look like he's thinking about something else (something that quiets him). But he doesn't comment on it; his look is understanding. He's heard some sheer horror stories, too.

"I'm on the fence about seeing both sides, I think." In this, he is inescapably biased. He can't be happy being abducted, and he knows - viscerally and personally - that he could never be happy even if he was a native, because he'd be unable to carry on being happy while knowing his ancestors were ripped form their homes. Being the child of conscripted Koreans in Japan, he doesn't have to imagine what that feels like. That's already his life in the real world, multidimensional abductions and magic aside.

"I can't get on board with being happy with being taken, but..." he shrugs his shoulders, helpless versus dismissive. "If you have nowhere else to go, It's not like this place can't be beautiful."