Rose perks up as he launches in, with the kind of interest of someone who isn't unfamiliar with the topic - at least to an extent. But she neither interrupts, instead letting him go on (and he does go on), quite willing to learn what she can while he's offering. Besides, it's genuinely interesting.

"Consider me well corrected," she says first, once he's hit a lull. "Though I'm not as unfamiliar with time as you might think. I was only just railroaded into completing a stable time loop before I arrived here, and I have a brief scattering of memories from a short, branching timeline. Of course, you'd do better to ask my brother if you wanted to get into a real discussion; Time is his aspect."

Though she's not sure how Dave might get along with him. She's only just feeling out his personality as it is, and what bits she recalls of the legends - varied things that they were - feels woefully inadequate now that she's learned how long-lived he is.

"I'm not so sure I want to buy into fate as unalterable, though. I'm sure in your eyes I must be traipsing willfully into the jaws of my own naivety; but even after being tricked by inevitability, I won't give up that easily. I've already evaded one fate in coming here, and I've borne witness to the fruit of a doomed timeline coming to ripen in another."

She never was much for the straightforward path, anyway.