“I never stopped looking back! I went home, Tin. But that didn’t mean I didn’t ever want to return! I couldn’t! No one ever came to me, I never found another portal, and the people in my world didn’t believe me. I was locked away for months at a time. People hurt me, physically and emotionally. Do you even know what that’s like?” His expression slipped for a moment, only briefly, but it was there. He’d looked as though he wanted to give a full answer, but then he simply said, “No.”
