Of course Jensen misunderstood him. He was barely clinging on to this while situation. Maybe random weird world-ending incidents happened to this guy every day, but Jensen's world-altering situations involved maniacal government assholes.

"How do you not understand planes and power lines?" Wait. Well, if he really was an elf, maybe they didn't have electricity. God, that was a bummer. A world with no tv. Or laptops. He wouldn't be able to handle it.