"Maybe it's the same seawitch." This was said with a bit of a laugh (only a bit, slight, more like the shadow of a smile than any real mirth): on one hand, the odds were so improbable that the very thought seemed absurd. On the other hand, his entire existence hinged upon a series of improbabilities.

"But I doubt it. From what information could be gathered, there was an apocalypse upon her home planet and her civilization was destroyed with her the sole survivor."