Jack's eyebrows shoot right up, and he leans in to listen, because he seems to have found the one person who is speaking his language. "Whoa, whoa, back it up a second. Time doesn't hold power here as it should?"

"I've-" Jack waves his head back and forth a little, "Short version is that I've traveled time before. A lot. So I know a little more about this sort of thing than the normal person on the street. I thought I'd just jumped dimensions coming here, changed timelines, but everything else should be the same. But is there something else going on with time here?" His mind is already running through possible time distortions that he's encountered that might be affecting this place.