"Someone suggested the place looked as though it had been a victim of a nuclear war. Swan said it resembled her world after the bombs went off, so ... perhaps that was the case." Lily smiled when he glanced up. "Somehow, yes. I'm not sure how they managed to replicate the sun, but I suppose if they can snatch us from various realities, playing with lights isn't a big deal."
She shook her head. "We didn't know where 'there' was, and we have no idea where 'here' is. Perhaps if someone comes along who can read the stars, they can give us an idea." If, of course, they were even on Earth still, and the star system played along.
"They are, yes. Some of us know people here from back home, but sometimes they're at different ages, from different points in time. Our date range spans from 1800 to sometime in the twenty-five hundreds." Which, when she thought about it, was a rather impressive range.