She kind of felt like Jack was being less prophetic and more of stating the obvious, because she had been saying for ages that there was more to this than meets the eye.

But he was someone to talk to, and that was an improvement from her usual isolation. She could say things to Jack she could never dream of saying to Gene.

"Let me guess," she told him, setting her glass on the table in front of them. "When you woke up, you were back wherever you come from. And it felt different, like it wasn't right anymore. Because now that you're back here, here feels so much more real than anything back home."