XXXIIThey spent the next morning explaining the world to Nathaniel.
“So, let me see if I have this right,” said Nathaniel after a few hours. “You arrived in Engn very recently. You especially, Diane. Before that you were elsewhere, and then you both found your way here. But most of your lives have been lived a long, long way away, in this other world.”
Finn shrugged. “Yes.” He'd done most of the talking and was trying to ignore the growing feeling his answers sounded ridiculous. Fantasies he was making up. Nathaniel never said anything to show he doubted them, but he was clearly delighted at the detail of their invention. He wrote everything they said carefully down.
“You don't believe us, do you?” said Diane. It was the first time she'd spoken for an hour or more. “You think we're craz
