Her side thought ("maybe that universe just has especially convincing methods of dying your hair") goes unspoken first because Stephen is off to the races, and then because what he says is fascinating.

"Shit. I mean... I get it. It feels." A pause, here for a moment. "Less like clones and more like it feels when someone who's been here before comes out of a rift but didn't keep their memories from the first time in Thedas. It's happened a time or two." She'd thought about it, when she returned: The relief that she'd know everyone who remembered her. "Sometimes they're a little different in other ways, sometimes it's just that they lose their Thedas experiences. But either way, they're sort of a new person, but also the same person. It's wild. Or," to that point, "my sister Sarah was here in Thedas, years ago. But at the time, she was from my future. So to her, it felt like I had a chunk of amnesia, for the stuff she'd experienced but I hadn't yet. But I was still me. It sounds like that but more extreme, right?"