Ellie focuses on that hand, instead of Abby's face, or the faces of the ghosts. A testament to a long-ago injustice, something that still echoed. Would always echo. Maybe enough to doom a world.

It's wrong, and it's still wrong, even if she understands.

"No," she says. Her voice soft, cracked. "Nobody even told me."

Ellie blinks, fast, breathes in.

"... I almost drowned. On our way in. I don't... remember being in the hospital at all. I didn't see anyone. Couldn't ask any questions."

She takes a deep breath.

"I didn't even know Marlene was there."