Far as I know, she's somehow made a psychic link between our worlds and hers. I don't understand a lot about that psychic crap, but I've had this kind of thing happen to me before. Chances are when this's over, we'll just wake up knowing somebody pulled the whammy on us.

[His mouth twitches into a frown as he mulls over the answer to the second question, though. He wishes he could give this kid something better.]

About getting home... we've been working on it. All I know is we're here to fight off a force of evil the Emperor's been at war with for a pretty long time. If we do our job, we get to go home. At least that's what they tell me.