After months of communicating with Saoirse without her speaking, Magnus understood that tilt of her head without question.

"It brings you here, and you can't choose when you go back," he explained. "You can't go back to your family, your home, until it decides to send you back. And it likes to play with people sometimes, show them bad things or make them do things they wouldn't do. But at the same time, there are amazing people here that you will like very much, and that you could never meet back home. Sometimes it can give you very nice things and show you things you'd never see yourself. So, bad and nice. Do you see what I mean?"