"It's been a year, Mr. Pleasant, we all missed that formation," Cain said matter-of-fact. He could tell Skulduggery thought he was further separated from the foreigners' waking and the events that had transpired in that time than he actually was. Probably better to save the guy some grief and give an even more watered down version than Cain had pulled together himself. "And a lot of other things, apparently. Like an invasion attempt. The kedan are acting different, but I'm probably not the person to talk to about that considering how long I was here before the whole shebang went down. Eva died getting us out of the Dreaming."

Although it certainly seemed like a lot to be dumped on someone at once, Cain wasn't all that surprised. So much could happen in a single year that it almost seemed like enough hadn't changed in the face of such a world-altering event such as Malicant's destruction. At the very least, it gave the foreigners to finally band together now as long as someone could use the opportunity properly. Now with Eva gone, apparently their chances of returning home in any sort of a controlled manner was gone with her, but Cain wasn't too fussed about that as long as time remained still where he had come from. "Oh, and we're pretty much all out of living quarters or cashflow but that's probably going to be easiest thing to tackle out of it all."