"You are quite right. I don't know many sparks" he replied. Just the ones on the ship and even then he didn't know all of them. Still, they were interesting people, but still, a bit mad.
"He seemed quite surprised when I told him that I had not heard of his Empire" he said. "What baffled me was that he didn't quite seem to take into account that we are not from the same... well. World" he shrugged. "Oh I do understand that everything here can be difficult to grasp and fully comprehend. It is all really quite remarkable and yet baffling at the same time, isn't it?" he asked.