"- what's she doing -"

"Keeping you from freaking out about being awake, at the moment. Sibyl - uh, that's the disambiguating nickname your Bell picked - precogged a few things I usually need to talk to patients to find, but that was only enough to let me actually locate about half the associations that need pinching off, and also my method for preventing panic attacks does require me to induce one and follow it home, as it were."

"...okay."

"There's alternate universe versions of you too and she's worked on them and they have been supplying advice."

"...it happened to them too -"

"Most of them, yeah. Differently, and later, the only Arda that's been multiversally hooked up earlier than ours its version of your mother is currently yea big." Hover hand. "But yeah."

"But I don't like leaning on alt consent more than I have to - I don't need a cooperative mental state, just consent."

"If it were the case that you were an alternate universe version of Isabella and the premises of this scenario were true you'd have permission to try to make it less deeply unpleasant to be conscious."

"Okay -"

And a standard introduction-to-subtle-arts-therapy later Boots proceeds.

She can watch a panic attack. She can have a list of associations - Isabella's posture, eye contact, looking up from the floor, standing or sitting or moving her arms -

Sibyl has already heard them listed in precognition and doesn't wince anew.

Boots fixes the panic attack and goes pinch-pinch-pinch along all the problem associations.

"...how long -"

"You've been unconscious for a couple years."

"-you okay -"

"I'm all right."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

"How long does this part take -"

"I should be done in another eight hours of work total but I need to split it up because I have a stamina limit."

"Okay."

"I can put you back to sleep in between if you're not comfortable enough yet."

"No, I'll stay up - I want to know the premise here, alternate universe versions of people?"

"Lots. There are more Ardas, this one is the genderswapped version and all your alts are guys. So are two of mine. There are more Earths, with all different magic systems. Mine's the only world that does roles. Worlds are or aren't next to each other and lots of things only work within one hop of the hub of the magic system or wherever something more portable is being used."

"...and there are more Mairas and Melkors, some of which aren't dead..."