"It's pretty stable and safe to live in, atmosphere, light and gravity are all handled by the place's magic. The ravines that actually go all the way are artificially made because of the Dead City, which is... a magical effect that infects the surrounding area through the ground and creates stone buildings. The place is dangerous because it stops healing and proper lifeforce recovery."

"Lifeforce? Is that a sorcery thing?" 

"Ah, it's lifeforce, every living thing has it and I know it sounds like new age stuff but it's true. Sorcerers have more lifeforce than normal, you too, but that I assume it's because you're a werewolf."

"We eat a lot more than humans, and I guess I have to keep the wolf body somewhere? I don't know how it works, really, it's all just legends."

"It might be that, I only know that you are not a sorcerer and I'm curious how it all interacts, but that can be done later. Is there anything that you need for now or the immediate future?"

Gabe will be here, trying not to think too loudly how much he finds hot the idea of these two kissing.

"No. Thanks."

"I think you're out of clothes, dude. Unless you want to spend the next while locked in your shoebox."

"Maybe I do. There's not really much I can do until I get home, I'm not going to be able to help anyone." 

"Okay, I was just trying to help."

"That is enough. You at least will need to go out and get some meals, but I can lend you some clothes. I'm sorry this happened to you."

"Thanks for your help." 

He sits, closing his eyes.

"Gabe... go fetch some changes of clothes for him." And to Scott he says. "How are you feeling?"

"Terrible. I don't think you can help with that, but I'm grateful for everything else." 

"It's no trouble, really. And I know the feeling of suddenly finding yourself in another confusing world. We will figure out how to send you back to your home."

"It happened to you, too?"

"Me, Gabe and our great-aunt Annabeth, albeit she found it decades before we are born and neither of us got here at same time. Gabe found Elsewhere before I did, and when I found it days later I spent an embarrassing amount of time thinking it was an hallucination."

"It feels pretty real. I think...until I get home I should try to sleep a lot."

"Ah, is that a werewolf thing?"

"Eating a lot is a werewolf thing. Needing my pack is a werewolf thing. Sleeping so I don't have to feel being away from them is a werewolf thing."

"'Feel being away'? What exactly that feels like? And if you need more food we can bring you some."

"I should probably get a job, to pay for things. What kinds of skills do you need around here?"

"Not sure there are any particular set of skills in need or which ones do you have. I suppose there are some odd jobs to do in town and some menial stuff worth doing here. I kinda of hesitating ask to leech lifeforce from you because it sounds kinda of ominous, but that is an option if you regeneration was as good as it looked like. I could also pay you to analyze how your... werewolfiness works."

"Lifeforce sounds okay, I guess, I think I have some to spare. And you can analyze, but I don't know if you'll get what you want unless I shift, and I can't do that."

"You looked different enough that even just that should be useful information. Why you can't shift?"