N-No. I, I r-really didn't want to. [One minute here in the tower taking notes, the next in a barren wasteland.

Or what looked like a barren wasteland. She hadn't had to eat for several days at the least. That is suspicious, but Tara's too tired to wrestle with it right at this moment, and so had been attempting to let her subconscious do the work while she worked out a little of her helplessness.]

I mean...I-I don't know how much help I'd have been against a...giant f-flying space whale but, um, th-that still would have been better. At least I w-would have been here.