"Holy shuck," Thomas said, wide eyed and slack jawed by the time she'd finished talking. The sudden influx of new memories was one thing but hearing that you could go home albeit temporarily was a whole new thing. It brought the question roaring back to life: what was this place and how did it do the things it did?

He knew, if anyone knew the answer, they would have shared but he couldn't stop thinking about it. The magic he'd seen from some of the different people that called Darrow home was nothing compared to the magic that the place itself did.

"And it was home?" he asked quietly. "You weren't dreaming or anything?"