He was quite obviously avoiding the topic of himself, but Rose respected that; after all, she had had to do the same before.

So she moved onto a different subject, one he seemed more comfortable discussing. "A rift of some sort, then." She wasn't really surprised by that; the cannon tended to deposit her in such places with weakened dimensional walls.

People were being trapped here? Now that was not something that she approved of at all. Any thoughts of using her jumper left her head; there was no way she was leaving when she had a chance to stop (or at the very least interfere with) such wrongdoings. "The people stuck here: they have anything in common?"