She's Ms. "I'm going to tell you what I know, but only in the most obscure and mysterious way, so that it can sound more portentous, and less like the writer throwing up concepts on the page."

Seriously, she's every bad Hickman dialogue tic rolled up into one.

Oh, and if any piece of the soon-to-be destroyed earth serves as a marker... "no matter how little", then the dust on their feet (and Tony's knee) just doomed their planet.