[ It's personal, yes; plus it's just plain bittersweet, seeing the home he's been told ad nauseam was destroyed by the Storm. He knew it isn't true. Their home still exists, and they can go back to it. He just knew it! ]

It had seams? [ Sorey is thoroughly confused. Seams? Blasting open? What? ]

It's malevolence. [ A beat. ] Normally I'd say to stay away from it as much as you can, but... it's not affecting me like it usually does. [ So odds are it's not affecting William as it could, either.

And that's when it kind of 'clicks': The seams. People not noticing them. Malevolence not harming them. There's a villager nearby having a conversation with someone whom Sorey is clearly standing in the way of. Experimentally, he waves, and gets no reply.

Turning back to William, then: ]

Is this place... like a time capsule?