I...I think he was. I saw him there, for a moment before I was absorbed with the Stone.

[Al chuckles weakly.] That's...a really long story, but I went through to that other world with him. He was being an idiot again, and I wasn't going to let him go running off without me after everything. Crossing through triggered it all, maybe because that part of the exchange was moot now. I don't really know.