Elan wakes up to the sensation of being on solid ground.

He sits up, taking in his surroundings. He's in unfamiliar woods. Was he kidnapped? Was the whole party kidnapped?

Right as he starts to worry, understanding dawns on him: he's in a non-canon adventure. Which might count as kidnapping, technically speaking, but it also means that he shouldn't worry. There's still a version of him sailing to find Girard's Gate, the party's still together, and all the plans are still on track. Nothing that happens here will change that. Okay.

He should probably get on this adventure. He starts walking, confident that he's not going to blindly walk off a cliff or anything anticlimactic like that.

He still misses Haley. But maybe this is the kind of non-canon story that'll be printed in bonus material later, with "the party telling stories to each other" used as a framing device. Which means that, in a sense, he'll be able to be with her again once this adventure is done.