Elaine nodded slowly, certainly listening to what Atropos was saying. It was a lot of power to be able to change the outcomes of other people's lives.
"Words mean a lot to me, narrative is different to fate in my context," she replied. "I'm working from a metatextual perspective. Narrative is from the outside. If it was fate, I would be inside it." It was perhaps an odd differentiation, but it was important to her. "I will not take your words lightly. It is something that I have never experimented with before, so I will take it carefully. But what do you think, a tapestry or a tree? Or both, to be sure?"