‘So this Ioki character would come and fetch Steve from time to time to go and visit Planet Ethar and play his music?’ asks Jack. ‘Correct,’ answers Eddie. ‘Simple, isn’t it?’ ‘And Madge here never missed Steve while he was away on the other side of the sun?’ asks Joy with her legs crossed, hands on her knees, and shaking her head from side to side. ‘Steve just popped off in his spaceship and popped back whenever he was ready, and no one ever missed him?’ ‘When a parallax shift happens,’ explains Eddie, ‘time and space mirror, but not exactly, because they differ in a small way. You see, the time on our planet, measured in our hours, is comparable to the time mirrored on Planet Ethar, only measured in their days!’ ‘So if Steve was away from our planet for two hours, he would be on Plan

