"If they do know you from the future, I'm sure they'd like to get things straightened out," she noted reasonably. "It might be painful for them, you not knowing them I mean — but the sooner you do know, the sooner you can both move along."

If she were a more jealous person, she would probably feel a pang of jealousy about someone from his world being here. No one from the Nine Realms — her Nine Realms — was here. No Eloise to lift her spirits, no Fenrir to pass on his wisdom, no Muninn to banter with. She liked those she'd met so far, John included, but it wasn't precisely the same. There was a tiny void in her where her friends and comrades had been.