"We call them minutes," Miguel advised, and then stepped back from the sudden hug. Miguel did not do hugs - Sarah, Harri and Henry were the only people who got to do that - or physical contact of any sort, really.
"You don't need to fight anyone. We're here because of a little girl called Amelia. We're taken from our point on the timeline to here, everything pauses back home while we're here, and we get sent back after a while where everything un-pauses again. And there are multiple timelines, so there are sometimes multiple versions of the same person. We don't know how long we're here for, and we haven't found a way to get back by ourselves." If it was someone else, Miguel would possibly have tried to explain things in a different way, but it was Parker. He was used to dealing with weird stuff being thrown at him, sometimes literally.