[Alice waves and tucks away her notebook. She walks over, her weird-looking Masquerain (why does it have cannons for front legs?) buzzing behind her.]

We're in the region of Ultern, but I'm not sure about your dad. You see, this place is subject to a temporal phenomenon that takes people through the spacetime stream and deposits them into the region, and eventually sends them back where they were. I understand it's inconvenient and likely distressing, but we can try and see if maybe he's around!