Oh shit. Right, okay. "Hi, Eddie. You must be friends with Bill and Richie, right? And no, it's not Derry, or Maine. Sorry." He was going to have to explain the whole Space thing, wasn't he? This was bad enough with adults. "Everyone here has been brought here by something. We don't know why we're here, we don't know how we got here, and we don't know how to get back home. Not yet. We live here until it's time for us to get sent home, and when we get back, I'm told it's like time stopped for the whole time we were away. So your mom won't even know you've been gone."
Dan got his phone out of his pocket as he was speaking, and brought up the contacts list. He flicked through until he found Bill's entry, and held his thumb over the picture for a moment. "I can take you to Bill, if you want? Richie's there as well," he offered, as his Shine quickly told him where Bill was, and even that Richie was with him.