"Not for particularly long." In absolute or relative time. She doesn't need to look at her watch's display to know current decoherence values are approaching zero; staying on a single linear temporal path is safest.

"How did it happen?" she asks. Clearly Carlisle isn't going to escape that path of discussion too easily. The fellow seems a bit... simple to her, but any information is better than none, even if it's couched in mystical nonsense.