"Check in on your friend all you want," Nico replied, "you're the one who's boss vouched for me. Unless you're changing Jack's story?"

She frowned thoughtfully at Jack. "They're my age, mostly. Blond guy with a dinosaur? A girl who's a living rainbow? One of them's a shape shifter, I have no idea how she'd look."

She wasn't going to get very far on her own right now. And she could defend herself now that she knew how to make her magic work here. She could probably at least trust them enough to see where they wanted her to go.