Lianna shakes her head. "I have no idea," she admits. She doesn't sound too bothered by that, though. She's comfortable with what she doesn't know, and admires people who do know it. An admiration that shows plainly in her eyes as he says, "I bet you'd understand it if Josephine explained it to you. Everyone in the Circle stays healthy, and the same age that they entered, as long as they stay inside. You would, too, if you stayed long enough.
"Other people started to find this place," Lianna continues. "People who really need it. Other people who were sick, or who needed somewhere to run to, somewhere safe." Lianna's eyes flicker away from yours for a moment, and there's a twist of pain in her voice. Which of those was she, then? "And they can be safe here.
"So they—we—came into the Circle, and now we have time to do these amazing things. You saw Marcus's paintings, right? Felicity's figured out how to grow all kinds of stuff in the garden, and Nick helps her sometimes. And Janice is working on this chemistry thing—I honestly have no idea what it is," she interrupts herself to say, and gives a brief, self-deprecating smile that crinkles the corners of her hazel eyes, "but I know it's brilliant.
"The trouble is, if you ever leave, then time starts passing. So if Felicity left, she would get sick again and start dying again. And God knows what would happen to the other people who have been here as long as she has! I mean, Josephine wasn't sick when she came, but she and Felicity are both more than a hundred years old now.
"The other trouble is, you have to renew the magic or it will run out. And then the same thing would happen. We'd age and die. Josephine figured that out after a couple years. I don't know exactly how she does it. That's all Josephine. She's the only one with magic. That's why we were so excited when you came around," Lianna adds. "You're the only person we've ever met besides Josephine who has magic!
"But to renew the Circle, you have to get a supply of time. You can get it out of old things." Lianna's hands trace through the air, making pulling motions as if demonstrating how to get time out of an object. "Or you can get it in other ways."
How to get time out of an object? What kind of sentence is that?