“Yes,” Daley said, his voice displaying his confusion.
“And how about your prison, have you managed to access it?”
“Prison?” At his question the mouse let out a sound which sounded remarkably similar to a little sigh.
“You and I, we possess no physical body like the humans and the other things he normally detains here. Yet part of us has to be present within the forest. He has not simply banished us here. It's a complicated undertaking, separating a conscious mind from a thing already formed only of energy, but this forest can do it.
“I am loath to admit its workings are beyond my understanding. Even I was oblivious to it at first, but on a few occasions I have managed to return to that part of myself, or perhaps he returned me. But, my esteemed comrade, what I saw was not good. No, it
