***Sexual Content toward the end of the chapter***
"Are you sure we will go back to the exact time when we left?"
"Siv, you have been asking this since we got here, the answer is not going to change." Colby snaps.
"I am just worried." She mumbles. "We have been here for a long time." Colby sighs.
"I am sorry." He apologizes for overreacting. "I know you are worried about Gary and the others, Kirja said she will tell us when we are ready to go back later today."
"Really?" Siv's face lightens up. "It feels like we have been here for months."
"We probably have been, if you consider the concept of time in our realm." He explains.
"I swear, every time you mention that, I feel like I am in a lecture about time theory or something." Siv admits.
"People from your world study time?" Colby asks.
"They study everything." Siv chuckles, remembering a study she saw online about the difference between apples and oranges.
