Carol didn't mind it. It's true after all, and totally not a positive first impression for a good fraction of people. But she was just as blunt as Allenby was.

"No, you're probably not, unless you lose them often?" she inquires. "But most likely not at all. You've been brought, summoned more or less, to this city. Aquares Ixen. You're not at all in the world you're from. Home is some far away dimension right now and..." About that 'being blunt' thing, "You're kind of stuck here with the rest of us for now. But it's not bad. Just jarring."