[ That's the way to go, Rose! Optimism. Magnus is either very much that or he's experiencing some denial, because he does not outwardly seem too thrown by the end of our worlds as we know them. ]

That is a common side effect. [ Of traveling by portal. He looks around a moment. ] You arrived on the beach? [ There's a faintly implied 'too' there. ] All of you? I'm glad to hear that.

[ Emphasis being on 'all of you' there, not 'on the beach.' ]

It was pretty sudden, wasn't it? Alexander and I were at City Hall, only for a short while. Then, here. [ He makes a vague gesture that sort of implies plop, nothing to it! ]