His mouth twisted into a grimace and he shook his head. "I dunno. I've been noticing stuff, different stuff, like that friend of my Mom's who's arrived? The Nightmare Princess? She wasn't here either, and all the others that have suddenly been showing up. None of them were here when we were growing up. So either it's us arriving has changed things, or this place is now going down a different 'verse and we're all on it."
He didn't say how he'd been worrying whether he'd ever get back to fix the portal if this kept happening.