A story? What? [She doesn't exactly disbelieve him, but this sounds like pure madness.]

But... even if you're just talking about this square person, with limited perspective and ability to control the world around him, [like she had, like all the people in her world had, until the barge introduced some new ideas to her, not even all the high ground and perspective she needs but a glimmer of it,] that doesn't mean he's not a person or that he lacks a future. How can you be so sure, anyway, that this person created you? How is it impossible that you somehow influenced him? Through visions, or something like that?