The Curiously Stunted, Incomprehensibly Disjointed, Perfectly Inadequate Adventures of Nicholas Cornelius Holloway – Episode 18

She reached out with a finger and poked at him. His whole body wobbled, and his features momentarily lost cohesion – like a pebble dropped in a pond. But he continued otherwise unperturbed around the room mumbling to himself and manipulating instruments.

“I don’t understand,” she said. “How can he be here and … not here?”

The Old One shrugged, watching him. “Isn’t it the stranger thing for a man to be where he is?”