"No, I don't think you are in your colony anymore, wherever that may be," she said grimly. "And I'm actually not sure where we are. I have taken a look at all the maps I could get my hands on and have spent the last two months speaking to as many people as I could but nobody has been able to explain where Gazin is located in any way which lets me place it."

She hesitated a little longer, well aware that the next part would be sounding like she had lost her mind. "There are many people here who were taken from their homes," she began cautiously, "but not all of them describe their homes as a place which is familiar. They come from parts of the world I have never heard of, or which shouldn't be able to exist." Another moment of hesitation. "And I know for a fact that people have been taken from different points in time."