[The other boy scowls.] Wish I knew. Apparently, this place is some kind of magic-- people get yanked here from their own worlds, it can even mess with time somehow. There's an invisible wall all the way around this place that no one can get through, and according to the people who've been here longest, the whole point of bringing us here is so that we can act out some kind of story for the amusement of whoever created all this!

[By the time he's done ranting explaining, he's huffing angrily from the effort.]