"Jus' over a week. I arrived on the train. Never knew anything so strange could happen. Reminds me of those fairytales I heard as a boy, like the farmer who fell asleep in a field and when he woke up a thousand years had passed and his farm and his family were long since gone," Alec chattered on, the way he did when he felt relaxed and comfortable, "Never believed those stories, not even as a boy. But now I'm here and they're tellin' me it's twenty-fourteen, and after some of the things I've seen so far, I have to admit I've found myself believin' it."