According to the Story Teller time on your world is frozen. Some kind of suspended animation. [Which in itself was terrifying. But it is a million steps better than your world was destroyed and they had fixed that, so they could fix this too. He held Jaune's hand tighter and his other hand came round to touch Jaune's shoulder. He breathed, slowly, hoping Jaune could follow his lead.]

We have been to other islands... [Carefully not thinking too hard about Ai'Tuoh] In fact this is another island than the one we all are based on. I can help you get to that one. [That's not quite what Jaune means though, Shion knows that] The... the place we visited before this one... it was half a day away by boat.

[Not mentioning that islands come and go as the Story Teller brings them and sends them away, that's a jumble of weird that Shion hasn't gotten his head round yet and won't make Jaune feel any better] There are... magical pools that allow us to move between the islands. But finding somewhere else... we don't have the rescources for that kind of sea voyage.