She already knows what Bryde would say about copies, so Ronan doesn't bother. It's not as if they need to rush. Hennessy may be rapidly deteriorating, but dream time stretches a lot further than waking time, and Ronan is here to sustain her. The Singularity is here to sustain her. He can feel the comforting pulse of its power threading through his blood, and if he wanted, he could take this dream from Hennessy and give her exactly what she's looking for.

Ronan isn't eager to hand her the blade she'll stab in his back, however, so he doesn't try. Instead he watches her search, while some other part of him focuses on keeping the Lace locked inside that closet, while another part of him surreptitiously rifles through the drawers of this dreamspace to find the answer to the question that's been turning over and over in his mind since Hennessy left him to die: Why? Why did you leave me?

"You can get it later if you make sure this isn't the last time you dream. Just grab something easy."