"Most religious nuts are," Ellie starts, but then Abby goes off, and Ellie pauses, raising both eyebrows to watch her.

It's distracting the both of them from almost certain doom, but Ellie's actually starting to realize that Abby is funny. Disconcerting. Weird. She likes it.

"You'd think that somebody would speak up like hey maybe some random hoarder lady isn't a great basis for a whole system of belief, actually, but noooo-"