[Her reaction is unmistakable, but Cao Pi merely observes without remarking at first, wondering what could frighten her so. About him, being from a couple thousand years in the past? Hmm.]

In a sense, they are. What is the present for me is the past for others. For still others yet, there is no relationship between their world, this one, or my own.

[He beckons her slightly closer with a curl of his fingers, to keep any open talk of CERES between them alone. It's telling that he's willing to speak of it despite any implants in their own bodies which can pick up everything he does, but not letting the average, everyday patrons of the coffee shop hear him is for their own good.]

I have no trouble admitting that they did not even take my from my own world, I had been spirited away to a demon realm first and they took me from there. Do not think, my lady, that what they've done to us is benevolent in any sense, even if they did take you or I or anyone from an unpleasant time in our lives as if to rescue us. This is no rescue.