"Oh, I grew up reading a lot, that's all," she excuses, playing up bashful embarrassment. "Parallel worlds and traits surpassing humanity come up often enough in fiction, I suppose I've had much more time to think about it than other people."

She could make a comment on Kanaya's friends, but, whale, that would probably go badly in one regard or another.

"Besides, if this is meant to be so far in the future of my Earth, I would expect the technology to be more advanced than what I grew up with, not less. Wouldn't you?"