Why do you talk in spirals like this? No, don't answer that.

[She still loathes this woman, still doesn't believe for a hot minute that she isn't deliberately cruel. Still. But there are cracks in that belief too - places rats could get in, were her mind a house.]

Our... what flows one way, our time? The force pulling other worlds into this? If you can't answer that, don't, fine, but... what's the reason?