"Mm... I understand your concern, Your Highness. ...I, too, have matters to which I must return, when possible. However... it is my understanding that our pressing affairs can be expected to wait for out return, from this place--that we will find no time has passed."

He tilts his head slightly to acknowledge how peculiar it sounds.

"So I gather, at least, from those who have returned to their homes and arrived here, again, afterward."