1. Sydney really is talking to someone.
2. She’s thought about what she’d do in a situation like this and is being weirdly convincing about it.
3. She’s cracking under the stress, despite putting on a collected front, and really thinks she’s talking to someone.
4. She’s debuting the first scene of a play she’s working on.
5. All of the above.
   

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The full Skilltree is thus:

1. Ambivilize an Adversary
2. Baffle a Baddie
3. Confuse a Criminal
4. Distract a Delinquent (or a D-List Supervillain)
5. Embroil an Evil-Doer
6. Flummox a Foe
7. Garble a Grifter
8. Helter-skelter a Hooligan
9. Imbroglize an Illicit
10. Jumble a Jailbird
11. Katzenjam a Knave
12. Lead-astray a Lout
13. Mystify a Malefactor
14. Nonplus a Ne’er-do-well
15. Obfuscate an Offender
16. Perplex a Profligator
17. Quagmire a Quincunx (I just wanted to use the word Quincunx)
18. Rattle a Reprobate
19. Stump a Scofflaw
20. Tumult a Traitor
21. Unsettle an Unscrupulous
22. Vex a Villain
23. Welter a Wicked
24. Xenotransplant a Xenophobe (You come up with something better)
25. Yarmulke a Yobbo (In my defense, this would confuse many people.)
26. Zig-Zag a Zealot

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