Well.

[Yes, both of those are highly legitimate points. There are hardly any semantic details which she could wish to contest—there are clearly ways in which one might acquire and anchor, and rifters are at this point seemingly inevitable occurrences and so it seems unlikely they will run out of anchors any time soon; they don't know that rifters disappear into nothing at all when they go; it's not as if the loss of the anchor would make him useless to Rifwatch—and so instead of doing that, Wysteria begins again:]

Well, perhaps we might consider the behavior of the Gates. If we observe the patterns detected by the thaumoscope, they seem to have been stabilized in a sense by the Taint. Of course I'm not suggesting that we infect anyone with the Blight. I only wonder if the anchor's arcane energies at all mirror those ordinarily expressed by a rift, then perhaps we might find some way of artificially mimicking a contrasting flow of energy to balance it and so avoid both the big chop and— [y'know] The other thing.

This is obviously all highly theoretical. But it does seem to me that there may be some precedent waiting directly under out nose.