"It's going on nine months now." He'd been around long enough to have come to a passive form of acceptance for most of the weird and unusual things that he'd seen. Even now, he was still learning things about the Quarantine and the people in it.

Mentioning the length of time it had been out loud made Ivar go quiet for a long moment. Ivar was beginning to wonder if he'd ever get back home or if he'd have to go through the full five-year period before the portal would take him back through. Well, Ivar had never been one to passively sit around, and wait for things to come to him. Others had gone back through the portal to their own or different worlds. He'd find a way.