[He's quiet as he mixes his curry a little with his rice, using the action to help get his thoughts sorted. Because as simple as the question was... there was a lot to unpack from it. An awful lot, really.]

... Not exactly. But from what I've seen and what I've read... I think I have a few ideas.

[But where does he even begin...? It feels itchy, sharing someone else's story and pain, especially one filled in with conjecture and guesses. Then again... Crimson sure liked to drag out everyone's deeply buried problems with these Disturbances she'd been triggering, so maybe he shouldn't be sparing her such sympathy on that end.]

I went through a bunch of her old reports when you guys were all stuck last year, and... it sounds like she was doing a lot of deep dives into the Dream Sphere for a while before she vanished. Really intensive stuff, along with another Dreamer who I'm pretty sure must be Reverie.

[Which is wild to say, considering how long SHE had been missing, but the carvings in that tomb in Necropolis and the blatant namedrop at the end of her final report had been proof enough. Although, on that subject...]

And then... she lost her younger sister, back in the real world. I can't say for sure, but... based on her last report, I think she decided to go into the Dream Sphere to stay, once and for all, to get away from all of her feelings here. At least, that's how it sounded to me, anyway.

[Which... y'know. Is pretty dang grim and has some Not So Great implications behind it!!]

She certainly didn't want us around when we crashed her domain a while ago, that's for sure.