His escape was the trap. It looked like the exit.
That's how he got in in the first place.
But this was
no longer the world he thought it was.
Abdicate power for even a second, and nothing would ever be the same again. Everything seemed to be the
same as it ever was, but appearances were deceiving. He had been confined to a pocket universe.
Having given Shauna power over her own domain, he had made the mistake of entering it. What appeared small had become large. What appeared large had become small. His world was now contained completely within her domain. And his old world reverted to
its previous state, wild.
By the time he realized what had happened, he was no longer able to find her domain. Only ever smaller copies of it.