There was no hiding her intrigue, for all that he spoke of pirate ships and "mad" abilities with the cautionary tone of some sort of biblical prophet. Her eyes widened considerably, not entirely without joy, as she thought of the ramifications of all of that. Of course she'd known that the hotel was capable of transporting a person from one place to somewhere in an entirely different universe, but she'd heard nothing about powers.

How utterly interesting.

"I hadn't heard of that," she said. "No one has really spoken to me much, so I'm afraid your my initial font of information." She smiled at him even as she noted the way he moved further away from her, as though she were a hot iron instead of a woman. "Your being very skittish, Hal," she said, opting to tease him. "I promise I'm not about to do anything untoward."