Am I hallucinating? James thought as the seconds passed and not a single movement happened, as if they were just standing still, staring at each other like it was a contest or something, and it made him somehow believe that what he was seeing was just a hallucination his mind had created because she looked like that.
A hallucination, or a manifestation of what had happened in the past days. A woman who looked beaten up, almost like somebody carved out of the rubble itself, now showing up just to show what James's actions were leading to, and that was death.
Moreover, the thought passed through James's mind that it might be hallucinating that woman, that journalist that she killed at Marco's house or at least thought he did, but the truth was he forgot her.
