She replicates the gesture and...it works, much to her surprise. Substituting one pattern for another. She closes her eyes, finally, taking a deep breath, shivering a bit as if trying to shake off the feeling.

"I think you might understand," she ventured, finally, "why I went to great lengths to have those things erased. Leaving aside their nature...there were a lot of very valuable secrets people would have killed more people to get."