Gideon nods. She still doesn't look at Maeve - looking up right then feels like it expose too much, like stripping naked in the middle of the kitchen.

"It was the easiest thing in the world in the end," she says. "All I had to do was fall, and know that I was dying before her. So I wouldn't have to watch if she did."

She didn't help but think about Pal and Cam right then.