i did n't want him to do anything tor-like which would likely not go over very well either so , after eating mom 's delicious herbed chicken , cheesy-garlic mashed potatoes and steamed greens but before she moved us onto dessert , i told them that tor was from a parallel universe , the same parallel universe i had been hurled into in my sleep and resided in the last two months and we were at the whim of blue mist magic .