She smiled again, "Yeah, Artan and me were joking about feeling like Dorothy, being over the rainbow. It's a joke a lot of people make when they get here, and so when the sidekick showed up, obviously he was Toto. It just made sense."
A shrug, "Henn named hers Kitten, because she always wanted a cat, and Henry is the same with Sparky, because he wanted a dog." She shook her head then, "And I'm not sure how people lose them, sometimes it's trauma, though sometimes that makes them hold on harder, sometimes it's outside interference, there are other things than the Shadows that could sever that connection. Not many of them, but they do exist."