"It never really got any less strange," Leia said. "But you did get used to the strangeness, after awhile. More or less, anyway." Nautilus never really ceased being a bizarre place to live. But getting comfortable with the general weirdness level was just part of acclimating.

She shook her head at Hera's semi-question. "No. It was more like..." She paused, and made a thoughtful sound considering how to explain it. "The entity could only deal in illusions, however realistic it could make them. In Nautilus, reality itself could be shaped and changed. You didn't seem to be a different version of yourself, you were that version of yourself, if only for a week. It was a complete change, not just an overlay."