[ Jim nods. She's right, yes— smaller doesn't necessarily mean small, and maybe drawing comparisons between her and other people here isn't very accurate. She still handles a lot of pressure and responsibility on a daily basis, maybe even more so than people like Jim, who reports to other people currently higher up than him.

Either way, they both seem to hold some relevance in their respective worlds, but before Jim gets to meet more people, he can't exactly call that a pattern or the norm. Maybe there are as many average people as there are leaders or adventurers around. Or there might be, if more pods keep popping up like his. ]

So that's two of you stuck here. [ He can imagine how that can be problematic. ] Messing with timelines like this is never a good thing. The question remains if that's their purpose or just a side effect they don't care about.