... Yes. Hiro and I both vanished from the Bishop in March. The common theory is that people go home when they do, but I-- I don't know. I woke up on the Marsiva two months later or so, around June, and everyone said I had gone. All of my things were gone, too... except for the amulet my father gave me. I had that.

[There's a gentle flipping of pages. Someone's looking through his journal.]

Yes. I've studied alchemy and herbology for a while now. I've never been able to use healing magic, so I compensated for it by making potions and salves.