It can't be explained by any force I'm familiar with, either.

[The Pale consumed. Things could return from it, but they always came back wrong. But the Pale was gone, along with everything else, and this-- it made no more sense than the way he could suddenly shut doors and windows with a flick of his finger.

Calling it magic sounds so fantastical, but this world fits that definition, and he has never been one to deny facts.]

We have a severe deficit of evidence for most things, unfortunately. That's why I've been trying to contact our friends in the forest.