Well the way the man lightened up made Nida smile too. Because tension wasn't really his sort of thing. It was useful at times, but there needed to be something more positive about coming to this place. If he had to be it, he would be.

"Nothing much. Magical compression of the time stream into a single point that in the long term would only be survivable by a Time Sorceress. Granted you can live in it for a short time if you have enough other people confirming your existence and vice versa. But even that doesn't last."