No-one was sure of what to say. Michael felt that Jessamine was far too credulous; she said he was a "cold-hearted bastard who wouldn't know psychic phenomena from a hole in the ground." Lauren refrained from observing that, in essence, the Well *was* a hole in the ground. All of them had felt the wind, but while Michael put it down to “differential pressure in a subterranean chamber”, Jess had insisted it was a Manifestation. Lauren, caught, as it were, between the two, just asked them to calm down.
It was then that they all heard the words: “Time IS.”