"I can't tell you precisely. Time fluctuates so seemingly randomly where we are---in the Bleed between dimensions---that not even the best time-tracking device can function properly. Counting the days, though, I feel as though it's been over a year. This is about the twentieth time I've greeted new crew members like this since my own popping. Most of the time I saw no one familiar, last time I saw Zedd, and...now you're here. Have I mentioned that I'm glad it's you and not Rita?"

Although Kim could do a scary impression of the witch, he remembered.