There's a sputtering noise in the back of his throat.

"You- I mean, of course that's the problem, is that I only have the one frame of reference! I somehow thought... there was a universe with consistent rules, that existed because that was just how the rules happened to play out! But this... what are its rules? Does it have rules? If there are rules, does anyone know what they are? Where did... where'd it all come from?"