That confirmed what I'd thought - that she'd come straight from the island just as I had. I didn't know how to account for the time difference, but at the same time, I didn't know how to account for being here in the first place, so I wasn't going to worry about it too much.

"I haven't seen you for a long time. You disappeared from the island. I had thought you'd stayed at Nick's but when I went to see you, he said he'd been alone. We searched, but we both knew. It felt like a very long time, months probably, and I stepped through a door and found myself here."