"Three weeks ago, I think?" Her watch had stopped working--she never should have gotten a battery-operated one. It didn't surprise Isabel that it had failed here. Had she taken her grandfather's advice and gotten an atomic one, it probably would still be working...

"Yeah, I think about that long. They whisked me here pretty quickly, though. Like I was dirty or something. Or maybe they were worried my magic might explode quickly, and they wanted to get my blast radius as far away from them as soon as possible."

Isabel was oddly cheerful about that, but that probably came from growing up where she had.