<The bone is definitely fractured, but not broken. I have a high pain tolerance, but I don't care to heal the long way.>

<Do you have enough that you can read my self-healing spell if I write it down?>

<Yes, I do.>

<– Do you need some paper, I should have some here.> Dante slings his bag down off his shoulder and starts looking through it.

<I don't have writing implements, but I have the book->

<You mean the stolen historical artifact? Dante, if you don't mind please give me something that won't get me arrested if we ever find our way back home.>

Blink. <Uh. I don't know your laws but this should be fine under ours?> He offers a piece of paper, ripped off a notepad.

He accepts. <It is. Sorry for being a pair of overwhelming winged people. Thank you, but could I have... Actually, could you just give me the notepad? I could find a way to repay you.>

<It's mostly used up – I can give you the remaining pages though.> He tears off the first half of it, containing lots of his own scribbles.

<Hold on – stolen artifact?>

<Thank you. And yes. It was written by a historical figure a long time ago and is part of our temple's collection.>

Herod looks away ashamed.

<Did you intentionally steal it or was that just part of the whole – disappearance thing –?>

<I don't know how your legal system deals with the right not to self-incriminate but it's not a very strongly held one in the UK.>

<It was me. I needed to... go somewhere.>

<Were you trying to get to Prime?>

<I think I missed half the explanation,> interrupts Anna. <What happened, who are you two, and why are you here? I gather that it's something to do with magic.>

Jubal sends the memory of the conversation between him and Dante.

<– You didn't intend to arrive here?> she confirms. <You didn't intend to arrive on some random planet, you don't know this one?>

<No. We never heard of this place. And we would have.>

<Also, not only planet but world.>

<You're from another, what – dimension? Have you confirmed that – our planet isn't just, I don't know, several million light years from yours?>

<I don't know what a light year is but the worlds can't be traveled if you go in a direction for long enough, no.>

<And we're not a planet inside one of your worlds?>