Nate has spent most of his life looking for lost treasure and mythical cities. He's watched people turned into zombies from touching treasure, watched tree sap turn a man practically invincible, watched literally every impossible thing become possible, and he still gives her the side-eye.

Trapped in a magic city is exactly his luck. "Oh great, because when I get magically kidnapped by a sentient city the first thing I want is a new cell phone." He wants to call her crazy, but it's hard to think anyone is crazy after the things Nate has seen. If he'd told half of what he'd seen, someone would have put him away by now.

"So everyone's just... stuck here?" If it's true, he's sure there must be people worse off than him, but he's still mad about it. He was on the verge of finding Ubar, and more than that, he needs to find Sully. And Elena is waiting for him, as much as Elena ever does. "What about their lives?"