"We didn't, as such, although the arrival of rifters like yourself about seven years ago certainly opened the conversation. There's not a lot of agreement about your nature, but having met several of you, I think that if nothing else, you're excellent evidence for the theory that there are many worlds beyond our own. You'll see, if you haven't already, that some of you come from places that are similar enough to have the same countries and some of the same culture, but sometimes there's magic and sometimes there isn't, for example."

They can probably get more into the nature of Rifters when they aren't in the middle of a hallway; regardless, it's something Julius has clearly thought about at length.

"But visiting others in a way besides this one is new to me. Is such travel voluntary or involuntary, for you?"