Sam's own brows furrow as well at her question. "If the Capitol doesn't bring you back when you die here, you end up back where they took you from. Somehow."

Honestly, Sam can't figure out the logistics of it all, but he can't really explain the couple of thousand years difference between Kurloz and Terezi or even the five month difference between him and Steve, despite them coming from the same time back home. Knowing that is a relief for some - it's the main thing that'd soothed him when Natasha hadn't come back, though it hadn't been much help with Albert, seeing as Sam'd still thought he'd never see him again - but for others like Kurloz, it's an even worse fate.