Rose certainly can't blame Fabian for being surprised. While one could spin Rose's question as deep, it's also clearly a non-sequitur. Under normal circumstances, Rose probably wouldn't ask such a psychologically-revealing question, but Rose isn't even sure how long she'll exist in Etraya. Might as well wring what satisfaction she can from it while she's here. And if she does persist here despite herself, it will be Future Rose's job to digest the humiliation of being known.

That said, she doesn't have to be too clear. She repays Fabian's non-answer with one of her own: "If you'll forgive me a bit of drama, in my observation Oracles and their ilk are cursed. Supernal knowledge is a burden that inexorably draws one away from friends, lovers, and mundane goals. With too much knowledge about what might be, what can't be, and what must be, one gains the alienating responsibility of choosing who else is allowed to know what, and who must stay ignorant for the good of all."

Rose's tone is steady throughout that little speech, but as she goes on there's something of a hypnotic quality to her words, as if they transcend sound to become mere background fact. One could forget she was a person standing there in her ratty robe at all.

But after a beat, that effect evaporates, and Rose continues, "But that's just what I've seen. There are many worlds and many shapes destiny might take, and it's interesting to see how the same themes and roles might shake out differently, don't you think?"