[Sixteen years...that was...far, far longer than she'd been in Keelai. Than anyone she'd known in the past had been in Keelai. Which meant all this went back way farther than any of them could possibly know.]

So what made them change their mind?

I mean, if Milyn herself confirmed it, we know they weren't lying. But...and maybe this is just because I've hung out with too many paranoid people over the years--[Some of it rubbed off on her.]--but I have to wonder why this is all coming out now. Because this kind of would have been useful to know...you know...four or five years ago, when we all first arrived here.