"Yesterday. I'm from Emelan on the Pebbled Sea." Sandry wasn't sure she believed that this wasn't her world. It was strange, yes, but there were whole continents and peoples being first learned about by sailors. Why not here?

Well, except the amulet which was supposed to work like her mental connection to her teacher and foster-siblings, but for everyone. And the fact that, while she was used to cloth responding to her mood if she wasn't paying attention, everything did here.

"You're just as new to this city as I am, then. Have you figured out how we got here?" Because she'd never heard of a place like this, and she couldn't feel any of her foster-siblings over their link, which meant that she'd come a long way. And wasn't sure how she'd travelled so far.

She hoped that no one was too worried about her back home, but there wasn't anything she could do about that.