"It's hard to tell time." Kai admitted. "We don't know if time is in the standard flow, or if they're messing with it somehow. But if they're not, it's been well over a year. Maybe close to two, even."
Saying it out loud hit Kai, and she was quiet for a moment, thinking it over. Had she really been away from San Francisco that long? Not seen her parents? Not danced?
"We've learned some things. We're here for an experiment. All of it is to test how we react and what we do. We've been given an objective, which is to 'survive and thrive'. We know that it's aliens doing it, and there are several different kinds. We know that we all have private rooms aboard the ship, which we know because we've seen them. Um." Kai thought. "We've learned mostly about each other. Oh. And we know that we won't age while we're under the quote unquote care of the aliens. Potentially, we're going to live forever."
Or until the aliens got board of them. "People come and go. Some stay a while, some don't. Some seem to go but come back, sometimes changed."
The forest was bright and odd, and Kai's eyes kept roaming over every little thing.