An Earth. . . nah. That would just be too convenient. But then, War has never discounted the laws of narrative causality, so it is possible. Could the Young boy have had. . . an older brother? An Uncle? The kid isn't old enough to be his father. It will occur to her later that time needn't have passed as she'd expect it to.

"Tortall?" She asks. "I haven't heard of that one."