There it was -- the smile that had been waiting. It came tenuously, as he checked his naked wrist, then slipped away again.
"Minutes for me, too," she admitted, and then realized that he might not be so very comfortable with her being this close, not after she'd told him that she wasn't the Nanshe he knew. She was, she really was, but she'd been separated from his reality... and that... that might make her strange to him.
With effort, she peeled her hands away from him and stepped back, giving him the space she thought he might appreciate. "So, we're both here, ostensibly both pulled away against our will, and pulled from different worlds and times. Okay. That's a start. I don't think we're in the same place as the rest of my family, so that means..."
She let out a breath. This felt bigger than all of them. "Maybe a different plane of existence? A different... a different universe?"
A place without Sumerians.... She took another breath. "We should explore." And then she realized that he'd been doing exactly that, before she crashed into him. The smile came back. "Rather, may I explore with you?"