"You want to work on your own world's problems first," he says, nodding. "But if we are successful here, it'll at least give other worlds the opportunity to heal. Things'll start working the right way again. Which isn't to say there isn't some sort of organized effort behind whatever's happened to your world."

He looks around, spotting the food cart in the distance. "I had a different problem. I was trying to get to the - the tree, as they call it here - from my own world. Coming here, waiting for others to do most of the work-" Roland shakes his head, crossing his arms. "It feels very different."