Well... I came here with these powers, and they weren't meaningless where I came from. I was using them quite a bit before I came here!

When you're in an unfamiliar place, it's easier to find your way with a map, right? It's a little bit like that. These aren't the timeways I know, so without any kind of guidance, I could stumble about them endlessly and get nowhere.

[ Nevermind that even that much seems an impossibility; she understands it, herself, but putting it in laymen's terms is always the challenge. As long as they get the concept, it's all she can really hope for... ]