Jackie shrugged. "The Dreaming. It was before Evastelei merged the planes, so. We didn't even know we were away that long. Mostly we thought it was a few days. And then we all woke up..."

At Lin's other question, he grimaced. "Man...so like, there were some of us who were, I dunno, psychically bonded to the hatchlings. So the Big Bad pretended he was really Asti and tricked some of us into gettin' back doors put in our heads. Didn't last too long, since he didn't get all of us. But it coulda been way worse, if he did."