... jesus christ. There really could be a child named "peace" out there in the wasteland. It's so -- There are enough differences, he says, resemblances happen, but -- But this... This level of -- coincidences, and the two of them, meeting here? In this weird space? Elle... This is the kind of thing that makes people believe in things. She doesn't know if Joshua's god really is real, and if he is, if he has any influence over this, over where they are now. But...

He's apologizing again. More obliquely, but he is. Elle's heart quakes. She doesn't know what to say. If she should tell him what she's thinking. But then words just start falling out of her mouth anyway.

"You... It -- You don't -- You don't have to be sorry. I haven't... I haven't really talked to anyone here about it, and it's -- You haven't upset me, or anything, really. It's -- This kind of thing, it'd shake up anybody, and, I mean, there's... There's always the chance that you -- that I'm..."

Elle doesn't know what to do with her hands. She's flailing with them uselessly as she talks, and so she clasps them, twining her fingers together tightly. "There could be -- a 'you' in my universe. And I just... I don't know it. I wouldn't... be able to know. So..." She licks her lips, suddenly nervous. "You don't... You don't have to be sorry."