That first day, fresh out of the fountain and getting a haircut in the middle of Kira's kitchen, my instinctive impression was that we'd leveled up. If we were in some kind of game, we'd finally reached the magic number of points or stars or otherwise proven our mettle enough that we got to take off the training wheels. This place doesn't feel any more or less real than where we came from — I don't have any kind of spider-sense about it — but things make relative logical sense, and the world is a heckuva lot bigger.

Standing in the middle of the front room at the inn, I realize now I had no idea how close to the truth I'd gotten.

There's been contact from the people who put us here, but it's always been so much more vague than this. This is explicit in a way that scares me more than anything in a long time.

And that's without my name being on the list.

Which doesn't make much sense as a whole. The inclusion of Margaery specifically seems to stand out, and I have to wonder the purpose of her being there. Is it because she has a specific skill I don't personally know about that might be useful? She does keep a lot of livestock; maybe that's what it is. Or is the reasoning more manipulative, more coy? Is this a measure of our obedience cloaked in concern?

I don't even know where to begin, and if what's written is correct, we have no time to parse any of it out.

"Does anybody know if this is true? Has anybody seen Jude or the Father lately? Can someone go check on them?"