"We don't even have years, Lapis," Pearl says, desperately trying to make her understand. "I haven't had the chance to talk to you properly since I got back from the satellite launch, so there's another factor to this that you aren't even aware of. Evidence is mounting which suggests that the power of the wormhole which brought us here may be weakening. Our chance to go home, to return to our own reality, it may very well have an expiration date! One that could be approaching very, very quickly."