[ She doesn't know how to respond to that, initially. Her life. For a second she doesn't even know what that means, and then she realizes it's strange that she can't visualize that, her life without this. She had goals at one point. A plan. And it has gone away so fast. ]

This...is my life, Rex. This shit we have to do. [ As she speaks, she thinks she knows how he'll protest, and she starts trying to fight the argument in advance. ] It's our life. Everyone here, they deserve to know what the fuck is going on. I'm not going to ruin our chances of figuring that out by not doing anything.

[ Something needs to have an answer. When she'd become a god, she'd been so sure all of it was worthless- she needed a point. The machine had given it to her. And now, here, she's got something else to study, something nobody else seems to be as interested in. ]

If there's no one else here trying to find a way to deal with Lachesis and Atropos and all the rest of it, I have to. I don't want to ignore the dying shit, it's-

[ She wants to ignore it. Forget about it for a little while. But she's not acknowledging that. ]

It's just that I don't want an entire city nuked again because none of us found the right tiny little detail or whatever.