Guild Wars 2

So at the end of the living story instance we see Dessa say she can’t leave the observatory, tries and in a flash of light gets reset to a point before Kiel met Dessa. Which means that Dessa is a part of the mists itself – maybe the observatory being a fractal of its own. My debate is: Is Dessa a real living Asura who was trapped inside Mistlock somehow and relives her “existence” every time she tries to leave the observatory? (I’m thinking like what happened in Star Trek TNG: Cause and Effect)Or has she died and the Dessa we see is some kind of hologram? Or is she not even an actual Tyrian, merely a figment of the Mists. I’d like to believe that she was or is an actual Tyrian, for she had memories of her dead Krewe members while viewing the reactor fractal. Could be wrong though, who knows.