No. They are. [ Sabine scrunches her nose, and if there's any frustration in it, it's at the unceasing knot—the hundreds of paths and options still everywhere around her in the fog—more than the other situation itself, like those wooden brain teasers. She had managed to make another small piece of it move. But it wasn't connected to this part of it at all. (Or yet?) ]

It was almost effortless, channeling the Singularity to help them heal a little. Going by to all of them a few times a day and giving them strength, peace, a little ease to keep fighting and surviving while everyone was gathering the ingredients and making the cure. [ She hadn't said as much before now because he'd long since impressed upon her what should and shouldn't be said in the castle, even inside one of the sound bubbles.

And it'd been an experiment she hadn't known would work when she tried it. ]

It's just not related to this part so far.