[And she would be able to; maybe even picking up on his accent, if she had as much exposure to other cultures as Cornelia had.
Even if they could easily understand one another, it didn't make speaking any easier, so he just kind of blurted it out, quickly.] I thought this place was somewhere on Earth - my Earth. I thought I'd been captured, and everyone was just an actor, or a spy, and this was all someone's sick idea of a joke. A game. [He let go of the communicator, letting it fall into his lap, so that he wouldn't try to crush the screen.] Turns out, the joke was on me. [A dry laugh.]