The passage of time is a very different thing here, just as it had been during the war, she finds. Before that whole weeks could go by without much at all changing, the same sorts of things happening day in and out without anything to remark on. It makes her wonder if that life was truly real and how she managed to survive it.

"I think so. Have you seen many movies yet?" Sybil smiles as she picks up the box, her turning on of the various devices and readying the disc far more deft than it had been once. "Or is it something still new?"