"I'm afraid you're like to be disappointed," he said. "Not only is it highly doubtful that your bother would be able to make his way to this world- much less this Isle- of his own will, but while we are here time in our world is effectively halted. More likely, when and if we were to return, we would merely be put back at the same time and place from which we left, but the effect is the same; those in our own worlds would be effectively unaware that anything had happened to us, and thus there would be no reason for your brother to seek to mount a rescue."