"Why, that's extraordinary."

And all the more so that his people have deduced it without magic. At least, that's her assumption, given how he has no magical presence. Hard work and things she can't even comprehend must go into it.

"I've never met someone like you before, doctor. Not in all my life."

The closest she got to those who study the stars, they were spacefarers, and their areas of expertise were quite different.