"No," Ellie says softly, and licks her bottom lip, sitting with him and the sound of the fire. "It's not crazy."

Once upon a time it might have been, maybe. Some part of her wishes that it was, but- Ellie has seen so much more of the work of things so far beyond her. And it's what moves her to tell Mobius something she's never told anyone. No one at all. Something that some part of her still she thinks she must've dreamed.

"Do you know what a sin-eater is?"