"I dunno," Lea said. "In my experience, the universe- or well, multiverse, I guess- doesn't usually ask nicely before throwing you a curveball or outright yanking the rug out from under you. You just have to learn to deal with it. At least the train's intentions seem reasonably good, as opposed to being idiotic or outright evil."

Would he have appreciate being asked? Certainly. But he wasn't expecting it. And the train wasn't trying to arbitrarily yank him around or messing with his powers like the bureaucracy and nature of the Tenscore Kingdoms and Diatu had done.