"I'm thinking you're from the 1500's based on the fact what's when your dress style was popular?" Leaving him room to be wrong. "So people are from around four hundred years after your time. More or less. If it helps any, someone's from around the year one thousand so you're from later than he."

So there's the small consolation of someone being further out of his depth than she is.

Gabriel exhales a breath as he thinks about how to explain things further. "There's obviously magic involved in the place since islands don't just float in mid-air on their own. Same with ships that look like they belong on water. We don't entirely know why we're here and the locals aren't really any more knowledgeable about it than we are."