It is certainly an improvement over my prior circumstances. Dawning of the end times is, I believe, nearing the very bottom of the barrel of circumstances.

[Those were...not good times. Broke, no horse, no food, alone on the road with no idea how to get home, and possibly a key instrument to the destruction of the world. Likely a very stupid move to strike out alone, as far as self preservation went, but better than the alternative. Too much death had visited the people that mattered to him already, he wasn't going to bring more.

And while he knows he comes from humble, to put it mildly, origins, it's difficult to imagine this world somehow being a worse change. Aside from the glaringly obvious kidnapping bit.]

You come from a world even grander and more comfortable than this one? I cannot begin to imagine such a place.