[ She considers this, looking at Chilton now rather than the ceiling above him. ]

My powers have been like this since I was first ImPorted, more than six years ago now. It's not something I was born with, not in the way it's manifested in these two worlds. My heart was always my own in my hometown.

After I—

[ She starts to say, but she cuts herself off, focus turning elsewhere with a furrow in her brow, a hand rising without urgency to block her mouth. Weighing whether she wants to finish that thought. ]