"How long individual people had been around? Or the Ministry as a whole?", he said. "I'm pretty sure the latter was in a book someone got, though it wasn't one I read; it'd been around for quite while though. As for individual people on the train, some people ended up being there more than a year, Xion and I included."

"Oh yeah, that space station type place, where each section was a different 'season'? Yeah that turned out to be the work of that Chaos entity I mentioned. One of our first run ins with it, though we didn't know it at the time. It had a thing for illusions, though I dunno how illusory you can call something when it hits like the real thing..."