Sort of? Maybe. People show up here, first, and sometimes they show up on the islands with the rest of us after.

[He waved a hand towards the desert.]

This place kinda looks like Monsun, but it's like a dream version of it. We don't know how it all works. We've just been told that if you do end up here, your world back at home is kinda... paused? It doesn't keep moving on without you. I don't really know what to think, I can only tell you that I've met my friends here and some of them were ten years older than I remember them being. So there's some weird time stuff going on.