( petrana sets her crystal down until it sounds like speaking, again, presuming that abella would enjoy the audience as little as she wishes to listen.

if she seems cold, it's by choice; a self-protective armour. the dispassionate recounting of things immense, emotional: she is little willing to discuss them, certainly publicly, any other way. it is useful to volunteer the information. it is not a conversation she is equipped to have in a way other than offering information. )

That is the nature of the fade. It is, in essence, irrelevant how time functions: it seems, based on the experiences we have documented here, that in a very real sense you never left your world.