All right, his lack of a real answer is starting to put her on edge. Not just annoyed -- that comes with Marco territory, of course -- but now she's starting to feel a little nervous. She doesn't like nervous. She'd immediately figured that with Marco here, that meant the others had to be close behind. But now she's realizing that might have been jumping to conclusions a bit.

She's realizing some other things, too. Something about Marco's responses are...off. Even if she writes off his dumb comment about being here for a year as a joke -- and she's not sure if she can write it off completely -- it's just...it's not quite right. And that puts Rachel even more on edge.

"Can you not right now?" she demands, shaking her head to toss her hair over her shoulder. This is getting frustrating, and a little freaky. She hesitates, just a moment. They could be surrounded by Controllers right now, even if that possibility is looking less likely by the moment. If this is another one of the Ellimist's stupid tricks...

"What do you mean, what took me so long?" she finally says, hotly, and crosses her arms. "Seriously, Marco, if you know something about what's going on here, you'd better spit it out."