She would always ask me to pick a number. Initially I would let her just read and see what she got on her own. After 5 minutes into the reading she would start saying the same thing in different ways and slowly. That's when I would start asking her questions to prevent her from repeating herself. I thought if I read with her longer she would connect better and get more information.
For me at least, Cookie has been a little bit like QoC - things they get on their own (sometimes totally irrelevant to the situation) are mostly accurate else everything is 50-50. QoC too has confused recent past with future for me so who knows maybe it's my connection with these readers.