Jason glanced questioningly at Jean Claude, but as usual there was absolutely nothing to glean from the master vampire's expression.

Jean Claude listened, allowing the young woman to speak at her pace until he perceived she had finished. "I cannot say that any land you have named is known to me. From your description, you may well have passed one of these "gates". But I am afraid that to the best of my knowledge, gates and portals to other realms are merely fiction here. Do your tales tell of return again through such gates?"