Funny that it comes down to this. She'd expected to be killed instead, so apparently there's still some use for her if she's sitting here, chilly in the cold room instead of her hot desert river, waiting to be...

Killed after all? No; they'd have done it sooner than this. Tortured? Quite possibly. But why? She can't figure out the reasoning.

She has plenty of time to think about it. Each second crawls by like an hour. She casts a few looks at the door; surely someone must come soon. She wishes Mnemosyne were here, except that she's glad Mnemosyne is - apparently - safely escaped.