He mentally revises his assumptions about her ship - and the fleet she mentioned, at that. Either the ships are faster or spatially closer together than Starfleet tends to run its ships. Makes sense if there's a war on, though. "I'm glad that's an option, then."

Jim nods, a little uneasy with the topic, himself. "Yeah. I wasn't able to be there for the trial or anything, but as far as I know, Khan isn't getting out again anytime soon." Assuming they can trust the very few people who know where the Augments' cryotubes are being held, but he's not going to say so out loud.

"I don't know how it works either," he admits. "I've also seen actual magic here so I'm mostly not trying too hard to figure it out." And he nods in response to her question. "She's been deployed on Columbia but she's coming back to Earth in two weeks, and since my apartment building got taken out by the last terrorist attack, I've been staying at our old house in Iowa, so I can't really avoid seeing her again." He's still not sure if he wants to.