There was something odd about his eyes--certainly you didn't see a pale golden brown often in a red-head. But it wasn't something so easily accounted for as that. Just...something off.

"From what I gather, all of this is far more advanced than what I might be used to. 'Tis like a novel or two I recall snippets of, by one Jules Verne. About a highly advanced vehicle that could travel beneath the oceans, or about a trip to the moon." So all of this was clearly futuristic to Nathanial--that was the problem.