Uh huh. [She looks highly unimpressed, at least at his first statement. She isn't sure what to make of his wording for the second, 'a part of me'? Glancing at him askew, she carries on, baldly stepping around that comment until she knows better.] Well, I'm getting mixed signals here. Some people think we got stuck here because this tree for whatever reason desperately needs our help.

Other people, like you, think it's yanking us around because something or someone here's got a hard on for making our lives harder...

But I guess it doesn't matter when you can't do shit about it.