"And I'm not able to leave this time," she protests, because that's really what matters the most here. She doesn't care what the telepathic current does to the dreamers, as long as she can opt out, which should never be this difficult for her. Why have all her recent visits to the dreaming been so awful? She's distraught with the notion that her very last source of enjoyment and diversion in this universe seems to be getting ruined for her.

But at the same time she's considering the information he gave her and taking a closer look at him. She'd been too distressed to pay any significant attention to him, and his mind doesn't feel different anyway, but now she suddenly realizes just what she's talking to here. "Is that why you are a vampire?" she asks disdainfully.