"It's been a few months now." Which he finds it hard to believe, most of the time. "Most of the time it's possible to forget that they're not islands like any other, until it's time to cross one of the bridges." Though it wasn't so bad when he could fly across the open space between; that's a sensation that's already familiar to him.

"No one knows how we got here, either, or how we can get home again."