"When," he rubbed his face, and looked around, exhaling in a mild whistle. "It's harder to tell than you'd expect. It'd help if I knew the where but..." he shook his head. "It looks and feels very Terran - very Earth - but at the same time it doesn't. And it's like... one minute you're on a normal street with normal houses and then BOOM castle, or BOOM spaceship, you know? And that's hard to get a grip on the when, but if they're capable of replicating my technology, I have to assume it's at least 2250, if not much later than that." It was the best he could come up with without further analysis. "But really? I'm just as lost as you are around here. I can't make heads or tails of half of this shi........." It was probably more obvious than he wanted it to be that he had to bite his tongue to keep from blurting out a swear.
He nodded when she confirmed that she'd encountered a similar state with her 'house'. So okay then - that part was right. It was deliberate choices that someone was making to pull her through, to pull him through, and - presumably - to pull others through as well. Getting to the cause of that though... god, he didn't even know where to start with that. What did he have in common with some girl from 1811? Besides - MAYBE, IF HE STRETCHED - an ability to handle being thrown into complicated situations?
"It's possible it's not a violent agenda," Likely, even, but he didn't want to go that far just yet. "It might be an observation sort of thing. They bring us here like labrats to study how we handle the maze they throw us into, what kind of relationships we make, how we adjust and cope with the situation, that sort of thing." Yeah, okay, ability to cope was starting to be pretty high on his list of common denominators between the two of them. "They'd have ways to monitor. Cameras?" he tried before he frowned - had cameras been invented yet? "Windows," he decided. "One way windows, so they can see us but we can't see them." He sighed, rubbing at his face. "Whoever they are. And finding that out is getting to be more and more of a priority with each passing second."
He'd have done it already if he knew where to start.