Miguel couldn't help but frown at Darcy's response to Ashley, but he waited until she told the man what year they were using before he spoke up again.
"Most of the people who are here seem to come from around that time, so it's what we use, even those of us from different times such as ourselves," he said, and took a drink of his whiskey. "I was brought here from the year 2099. There are others here from even further ahead than that. And I'm sure there are people who are from earlier than yourself."
"And yes, it's been five and a half months since I arrived here. It's very hard to formulate theories on how people arrive when they do so with no warning and no set location to arrive in, so it's not like I could set up anything to record what happens when there is nothing predictable about it at all. There are many people working on this, from many different backgrounds of study and as far as I know, we have yet to come up with anything that could explain how multiple people from all manner of different times and locations can be brought to this place at this time. In light of our lack of knowledge, 'magic' is as good an explanation as any. But any insights you feel you could offer to help us work it out would be gratefully accepted. Perhaps you've noticed something nobody else has."