Vanya is harder to break away from than Gwenaëlle is, and there is no sliver of her that wants to hear what Anderson Gallagher has to say about absolutely anything, so—

“That's what you do,” he says, from behind them, “you walk away from things, Gwenaëlle,”

and she grips Vanya's hand, no small part of her finding the time to be irritated at having her extremely heroic and helpful thunder stolen, and by no less than someone she very much desires to turn around and shout at for being a projecting hypocrite.

He isn't real. He isn't real, and if she fights him, something she doesn't understand has won.

(It is a well-chosen provocation.)