> "I figured something of the sort was likely to be the case. I have done my best to keep it off when I did not think I might need it."
> Look back at Aya if we were looking away.
> "Anyway, I wandered around the shadow of my home for a while, with no discernable way out. The experience taught me that my home is very hard to navigate without landmarks, among other things.
> Put the camera away while talking, but do not turn it off, and make sure our purse is open enough that we can pick it back up without making a lot of noise.
> "Then...I'm not entirely sure how I escaped. I fell through some sort of crack in reality, or what passed for reality in that void, and fell for a while, until I found myself in Makai, of all places. The shadow possessions I had picked up from my bedroom were gone, as was any sign I had ever been there, really."