"I'm sorry - was it Ilda? I know someone else was looking for her too."

She had been keeping an eye out, but with the city wrecked like this, it was hard to find your own way around, let alone someone missing.

She smiled a little ruefully at Pepper's question.

"No, not that I know of. Not in reality at least. And I'm a little behind the times from most here. You're all in the latter end of the twentieth century, aren't you?"

Which was why Aifaran had been such a shock. Beside the fact it had good plumbing and everything didn't smell like shit.