"In fairness, we were out of options. The nightmare was ending, and I was wisping away to nothin..." She paused as she said it, eyes widening, as if she was remembering that, looking down at her hands. "Oh. I ... I think I remember that. I didn't leave until Luz and I were almost too late. There was a young waste there, at the lip of that rotten hole in the ground. It was leave, or fade away."

"When did you cross through?"