"Why are we stuck here? Why don't our powers work? Asking whys in this place will do little else but drive you insane." She hadn't moved from where she knelt by the body. She went still for a moment, looking at the dupe's face, and almost without realizing, stretched out a hand to touch her fingertips to his forehead. A few strands of his hair touched her knuckles. He was cold, not just from having been in the water, and she thought Why don't our powers work?

Then she felt horrifically, deeply guilty and pulled her hand back, fingers curled into a fist, and tucked it against her stomach.