"I figured it was some kind of time travel," Claudia says, after a long moment. "I mean, I don't know if I'd have believed in time travel before I got here, but this place really broadens your mind, you know? I've got an uncle who's a big purple cat from space now. Or... maybe it was a Rip van Winkle thing or, um, Japanese Rip van Winkle. Mimi called him Urashima Taro, I think? Only he married a dragon instead of going bowling with some gnome guys. Or there was this movie that Janine dragged me to a few years ago, Flight of the Navigator, where this kid got abducted by aliens and time didn't pass the same way for him, 'cause of space stuff. Janine understood it, I didn't really."