"I've never thought about the stars as something other than to navigate by," Kahlan said, pondering that. Most of the words that Sam used made no sense to her but she hoped, if she kept taking classes, that someday they might. It was knowledge that she'd never have access to in the Midlands and Kahlan was a little greedy about taking advantage of learning all she could.

"Our world is a lot simpler and has magic, though, and I'm finding these modern worlds use science instead. Is that common? You said you'd traveled to other worlds before coming here, right?"