"So what you're attempting to tell me," Gregor says, very slowly. "Is that I've been kidnapped from my duties here by a ship of unknown origin in unknown space onto a ship full of aliens, that nobody at home has noticed because this is all completely fake due to another event of similarly unknown origin, and that I don't remember because I conveniently have amnesia about all of these events due to being here at home for too long."

He pauses for a long moment, appearing to carefully consider and reject several responses before air sighs almost inaudibly from his lungs and he meets Bel's eyes again, one eyebrow arching.

"Do you have any proof of this, Captain Thorne? Besides the unfamiliar uniform you're currently sporting, I mean. This is all a little..." He stops again, choosing his words delicately. "Difficult to swallow."