[ there's a pause. ]

The same magic that holds this place together, the Temple, the Forest . . . it runs through me. We have a connection, this world and I, and normally I can leave it. But lately the Temple and the Forest haven't been so cooperative, and any attempt at leaving as left me . . . well. It isn't pretty.

[ pain. immense pain. ]

Bringing you all here was something of a last resort. Beings and things can come to and fro from here, but I can't. I don't know why.