"Adopted," Cosima clarifies. "She and Donnie couldn't have kids biologically." Weird eating habits aside, Helena seems (at least for now), calm and curious. For all Cosima's giving her a chance for Sarah's sake, Helena genuinely doesn't seem threatening in the moment, which makes things easier. "She takes good care of them," she adds loyally of Alison; it's not a life she has much connection to, but Alison clearly wants to give her family something affectionate and stable, which Cosima can respect.

(It seems a world away from Thedas, suddenly real when it had felt distant for months prior to her sisters' arrival.)