back in time adventure

Computer generated image of a market scene

The walls of the Gardiner Museum have dissolved and you are standing in the middle of a very different place. You feel something in your hand - it is the thread you picked up at the Gardiner Museum. It is attached to a nearby cloth that is sitting on the ground beside a young man. The young man is using a tool to incise a design on a cylindrical pot. The young man looks up and smiles at you. He seems to recognize you and starts to speak to you, and you are so surprised that you understand what he is saying that you let the thread in your hand start to fall! Instantly the young man's words become meaningless and the scene starts to turn thin and see-through, like a sheer drapery...you can actually start to see the Gardiner Museum through it... do you:

Let the strange scene completely fade?

Catch the end of the thread before it falls to the ground?