Now Shadow leaned forward a little. "All of humanity petrified? That almost sounds like the kind of thing an ascension level event might do, ah, that's the highest level of magic, except that you've confirmed there isn't magic. At least as far as you know. But that must've been quite a thing. Once I slipped into a reality gap in the Dream Realm, ah, that's where people like me're from, and lost a few hundred years. Just suddenly jumped forward in time like that."