After all the nightmares she's had about Vi's death, it feels almost... a relief. If one of them had to die... But for Vi to kill her after she'd thought... She'd hoped... After...

She doesn't mind the hand on her shoulder. In fact, she finds it comforting. But she hardly wants to admit that she could use some comfort.

"That's another data point to suggest that the stairs show us things that really happened." She refuses to think about what happened. She has to focus on what it means.

"Or nearly really happened. They seem to be able to access our memories and extrapolate likely potential deaths from them."