Rose glanced over at him, then said, "You didn't disappear, not for me." He'd been there in the mornings when she'd left, and still there in the evenings when she'd gotten back. No disappearing to speak of, not in that way anyway.

"'s one of the odd things about this place," she explained as they went through the big ornately decorated doors into the banquet hall, the smell of buffet drifting to meet them. "People have gotten pulled in from all different points of their timelines, but no one ever went missing outside of this place. It's the Impossible Hotel."