It's not useful. [She shakes her head.] It means I start in a different version of my story, and I couldn't even remember my other lives before. And now that I do remember, those memories double. I'm lucky that not a terrible lot has changed, but the things that do, I have trouble...I can't always remember which is true right now, and which was true before.

And it also means I don't get to go back and finish anything I started. And lately, each time I wake up, the worse my story gets.

[She points to the briars wound at her gut. Emerging from her gut.]

These aren't supposed to be here at all. And they weren't half so bad last time.