Alas, there was no precedent for those supernatural beings in Alfredo's world.

Alfredo grinned in turn as Xander went on.

"How does that work, Xander?"

And it had taken the boy some doing to not give the man some title of some sort - you just didn't disrespect angels, to Alfredo's way of thinking! - but they'd been around each other long enough for just the name to be natural.

"Was a world... connected, to Earth, in the same way Romeo's- Far Shore, I think he called it - was?"