[ definitely going to need another few moments to process that. or in elena's case, process it just enough to accept it as a truth and go back to make actual sense of it later. these dimensional differences make it just possible enough not to freak out. they are not her heaven and hell. as far as she or anyone knows, that doesn't exist. anna, vicki - they were in some sort of limbo, yes, but was that heaven or hell? does it have anything to do with those entities? elena never believed in the literal existence. yet she's recalling how she's joked before that this is hell; the thought is as jarring as it is frightening, knowing it now exists.
how she's thought, even for a second, that maybe she likes it here. ] How? How do you know him?