'Venatori experiment' immediately gets a grimace out of her, another deep furrowing of the brow as she thinks. Clarisse is certainly right that something happened. Magic? She didn't think that magic could alter memories this deeply but she didn't think that magic could turn back time either so she should probably throw that thought out the window...

"Research will figure something out." Surely. She's not sure of what else to say because, even though Clarisse knows all of this information about her, Abby is still talking to a stranger. There's no urge to comfort her like she would a friend; mostly she just wants to leave and try to stop thinking about this. Wait for it to get fixed.

So she nods and says, "Yeah," nodding distractedly. "Course. Whatever you need."

... The book? Ellie's book.

Interesting.