"Real is what you make of it," Verity said, mimicking the motion and leaning against Liam. "My best is that they're from a bunch of alternate realities--some of which are pretty much a funhouse mirror version of real to us but that doesn't make them not-real, you know? But even if they're specifically from our future...who says they have to take a trip chronologically? The portal they tumble in from may pick them up from 2028 one year and 2035 the next. Who's to say?"