"Poof and a flash, huh?" Mel said, leaning back so she was sitting on her hands a little bit. It wasn't much info to go on but it did sound an awful lot like the portals that brought Shar and the others to her world. "I can't say for certain without knowing the exact circumstances surrounding what lead up to your friends disappearances," she said looking to the little guy. "But my guess, and from own my experiences as of late: there's been some kind of tear in an inter-dimensional, inter-worldly portal." Most people hearing the kind of talk Melody was spewing forth would think she was crazy, but the way Melody spoke held an air of sophistication and intelligence; like the girl might actually know what she's talking about. "It's complicated," she said as she realized she might have just lost the cat on that one. "But there are different worlds, each connected by a veil that some beings, if they can muster up the ability, can pass from one to the other by opening a portal. It can be either be done deliberately or, on the rare occasion, accidentally. Either way it's done, sometimes innocent people get caught in the crossfire and end up getting sent someplace they shouldn't."