The island wasn't really a comforting place, at first, but Jacob had come to think of it as home. He gave the guy his best attempt at an apologetic smile and tried to decide which angle to come from first. There were so many, really, and it depended on his threshold for weird.

"I'm guessing if I told you this was a pocket universe that collects people and dumps them in tropical paradise for a while, you wouldn't buy it? I'm just trying to determine how immune you are to weird."