Now she understood. "We are trapped in this place. It seemed as if we were summoned for a reason, yet the beings responsible for this unnatural state have left, and yet more of us still arrive." He had thought they might be released after the events of last month, but he had been wrong.

"I sought to spare this world from total annihilation. Now that the task is complete, I wish only to leave." Others had come and gone, according to patterns he had recorded but could not truly predict. All signs showed that he should have left this world months ago, and yet he remained.