"I guess not. I've met people here with powers that definitely don't exist in my world." All that talk about gods and souls and especially countries had mostly gone over Soma's head, but she'd seen people healing other people at night, and that meant they at least hadn't been lying.

She nodded. That was something she could make sense of--a question she could answer, if only partially. "There is something important out there. Someone in the institute--I can't say whom--stole some data from Landel when they were on a mission. I can't tell you much right now, but I can tell you there's a reason they brought us here, and we may be close to figuring it out."