"Valyn?" Elena laughed, absolutely delighted. "The tall prettyboy with the pointy ears, right? I've met him! He's a bit stiff, but he's a nice guy." And they'd actually been talking about people from his world showing up. He hadn't wanted them to.

Apparently Landel's had gone ahead and done it anyway.

She nodded in agreement with Tamaki. "Yeah, mine too. It may sound strange, but...time doesn't exactly seem to be fluid, here. Everyone from my world comes from my future." She tried to not look bitter. "So I'm a kid here, but they all remember me as an adult. It's kind of disorienting." Then there was the whole "bringing the dead back to life" thing, but this place had already proven that natural laws weren't exactly an issue.

And there were good things about this place. Tamaki was one of them.

But the bad tended to outweigh the good.