[He was speaking so calmly because so much more had happened. Nel needed to know exactly what happened, without dramatics. Especially since things got worse.

He didn't want to make this more crazy sounding for her than it already was.]

...We had to fight through a whole bunch of powerful monsters, but Sophia's power opened a gate to the fourth dimension when we got to the Time Gate on the planet Styx.

[He pauses.] What we found when we stepped out of the gate... it wasn't anything near what we expected.