Still... she has been through something similar?

[ He lets the quiet hang for a beat as he considers, some wistful edge still to his expression. ]

Deerington did so love to remind us of our past experiences. Perhaps Trench is proving to be the same. It may be too early yet to say whether this world works in the manner of the dream, but there was always the air of a puzzle, there. A riddle, often based in emotion, to be solved.