[France beams briefly. It's a bad pun, but even a sophisticated creature like France can't deny the fun of it!]

[His expression sobers, though, sympathy the primary emotion in his eyes.]

Unfortunately, this place works in entirely mysterious ways not only in how people come here but how they leave. We haven't been able to establish any known mechanism, expect people tend to appear in groups and in New Bark, Goldenrod, or Mahogany.

I am sorry. I wish that I had better news for you.