Now the fact that he was seemingly curious about things instead of freaking out about it was interesting, but helped Elphaba relax. After all, she didn't really handle people who freaked out very well. Well, not in this instance. She did know how to handle Galinda when she would freak out, but that was something else entirely.
As he mentioned having traveled backwards in time, Elphaba was curious about that. In her experience with this world, most people seemed to be from the past to varying degrees. Then there were some who were from different places all together that had different methods of date keeping, so it was difficult to tell whether they traveled forward or backwards in time. Such as was Elphaba's case. Nodding at his question, Elphaba smiled slightly. "Yeah, a lot of people, actually. More than you may believe at first."
"I did, yes. The place I come from is completely different from here, though. But the basics of how and why you're here are that there is an Apocalypse happening here. I don't know if you're religious or not, but it is the Apocalypse as is depicted in the Christian Bible. There are Seals that are keeping Lucifer caged, but they are being systematically broken to let him out. It is through these Seals that people like you and me are pulled here. No one really knows how or why, but the best we can surmise is that it's some sort of magic that is not under anyone's control." She paused, then suddenly blushed slightly. "Oh uh, sorry, forgive my manners. My name is Elphaba Thropp," she finally introduced herself a bit awkwardly.