"How do you feel?" asked Ms. A.

"I'm okay. I just wish she would have not felt the need to receive this ugly lesson. How come it seems like we've been traveling for so long?"

"Because we have been traveling for a long time. All of these mini-trips you keep taking, they're correlated to the microdot I slipped you. They don't happen simultaneously, they happen in extended non-linear time."

"That sounds interesting. Could you explain it?"