[ It isn't that she doesn't know that this would be something she would need to do. More, she was trying to avoid it until she was able to learn more about it. Bonding with someone sounds like a big commitment. It isn't like hopping into a device and hopping to another time zone.

It felt like more than that. And yet Geiz...

Although, from her past experience, Geiz also seems like the type to just charge blindly ahead and think later. ]

It's about what you would be giving up to make the bond. And what if...this bond continues when we go back home? What about what we went back in time to do?

[ They have gone back and forth about this so many times. What do you do when you start to care about the one person you've gone back in time to defeat? She stares at his hand quietly thinking through the options. ]