"Not enough luck. Just enough to get a whole lotta 'I don't know'. But I don't know how this three point tether thing can work when one of the points don't even exist anymore. We got these articles, though, remember? Ones from the Ministry when they was warnin' us about train stuff. One of the stories was about some Collector wantin' a sun god up his sleeve-"

And man, is there one of those in every universe?

"Which means that somebody figured out how to tether people against their will and abduct them entirely that weren't the train. So I wanna find out more about that case."

Even if he feels like he's sifting through garbage at a landfill for a diamond ring. "I guess in the spirit of actually makin' some progress, I'm thinkin' of makin' some practical requests concernin' items we need. You got any suggestion in terms of rescue equipment or somethin'?"