"It was no big deal." Don't listen to him, he just doesn't like anything remotely resembling pity. The Upper Level was much safer and that's where he lived after the first month, but that was also complicated. He had to take care of the store, and there were several reasons over the years that he'd moved back down to the Lower Level. Ed doesn't fuss about it much, but some day the full details will probably come out when Shigeru least expects them.

"No one should know that about us, but no one should be able to pull us through portals against our will and tell us we did it to ourselves either." Skeptical? Nah.